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TIL in 1973 when Marlon Brando won an Oscar for Best Actor, he boycotted the show and sent a Native American woman named Sacheen Littlefeather instead. She refused the Oscar on his behalf and made a speech about Hollywood’s mistreatment of Native Americans. She was booed.
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Submitted February 24, 2019 at 04:32PM by Chris-Jean-Alice
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TIL Doune Castle in Scotland, where Monty Python filmed "Holy Grail" movie, rents coconut shells to tourists
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Submitted February 24, 2019 at 01:46PM by GuitarHenry
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TIL After not raising enough to fund the project, the Beatles' George Harrison put in 3 million of his own money to fund Monty Python's Life Of Brian, basically because he wanted to see the movie. It was later described by Terry Jones as the "world's most expensive cinema ticket" .
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Submitted February 24, 2019 at 02:49PM by Sin-a-bhfuil
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TIL that the Queen logo, called the Queen crest, was designed by Freddie Mercury himself, who held a degree in graphic design. The logo combines the zodiac signs of the four band members.
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Submitted February 24, 2019 at 06:56PM by Virble
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TIL the Statue of Liberty was originally a dull copper color, but after 20 years it oxidized and was covered in green petina. Congress wanted to paint away the corrosion, but the Army Corps of Engineers concluded it "softened the outlines of the Statue and made it beautiful."
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Submitted February 24, 2019 at 07:54PM by __ah
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TIL Robin Williams wanted to play Hagrid in the Harry Potter movies, but there was a British only rule
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Submitted February 24, 2019 at 06:48PM by marmorset
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TIL that Telford Taylor, chief prosecutor in many of the Nuremberg Trials, also wished to prosecute American pilots who had bombed North Vietnam, believing they were also guilty of war crimes.
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Submitted February 24, 2019 at 08:41PM by gentlebot
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TIL about Continuum, an AIDS denialism magazine that shut down because all its editors died from AIDS.
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Submitted February 24, 2019 at 11:44PM by Linkerdo
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TIL: During Prohibition in the US, it was illegal to buy or sell alcohol, but it was not illegal to drink it. Some wealthy people bought out entire liquor stores before it passed to ensure they still had alcohol to drink.
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Submitted February 24, 2019 at 10:15PM by OvidPerl
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TIL that some non-redheaded men have red beards because they have one copy of the MC1R gene. Two copies would make them fully redheads
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Submitted February 24, 2019 at 10:54PM by Medically
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TIL At 24 years old, Isaac Newton was sent home from school to avoid the bubonic plague. During this time, he invented calculus.
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Submitted February 25, 2019 at 02:07AM by TimeCentaur
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TIL that there is an FAA regulation called the 'Sterile Cockpit Rule', requiring flight crews to only discuss topics pertinent to the safety and operation of the flight below 10,000 feet.
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Submitted February 25, 2019 at 01:54AM by PlatinumAero
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TIL that Stephen Colbert's father and two of his brothers were killed in the plane crash that sparked the FAA's Sterile Cockpit regulation back in 1974.
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Submitted February 25, 2019 at 03:53AM by TheShadowOfYourSmile
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TIL: There was a case of British conjoined twins. If not separated, they’d both die in months. If separation was successful, the healthier twin would survive but the surgery would kill the other. The parents refused consent, but a court overruled them, the surgery killed one twin to save the other.
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Submitted February 25, 2019 at 02:56AM by cop-disliker69
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TIL that in 1956, pilot Thomas Fitzpatrick lost a bet at a bar in Manhattan, he successfully stole a plane from the airport and landed it on the street in front of the bar. He did it again 2 years later when someone refused to believe he had done it.
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Submitted February 25, 2019 at 05:31AM by xxxvuhsace
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TIL Director Akira Kurosawa was so impressed with The Magnificent Seven, the American adaptation of his own film, Seven Samurai, that he presented director John Sturges with a sword
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Submitted February 25, 2019 at 05:55AM by szekeres81
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TIL the FCC prohibits the phrase "Jesus Christ" from being said on network TV as an exclamation/expletive; you can say "Jesus", you can say "Christ", but you can't say "Jesus Christ" unless he's literally on screen as the man from the Bible. The term "goddamn it" is also banned from U.S. network TV.
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Submitted February 25, 2019 at 11:24AM by theaxeassasin
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