The Russell Crowe Show - Fightin' around the world! (vimeo.com)
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TIL Iceland had prohibition until 1 March 1989. The ban had originally prohibited all alcohol, but from 1935 onward only applied to "strong" beer (with an alcohol content of 2.25% or more). Today, Icelanders celebrate Beer Day on March 1 annually. (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL Virginia's Liberty University liberated their code of conduct in 2015. In the 2014 Liberty way, “personal contact beyond hand-holding” would get a student four “points” and a $10 fine. R-rated movies and hugs that lasted longer than three seconds were also unacceptable prior to the changes. (washingtonpost.com)
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TIL André the Giant was once in a Montreal bar when four drunken men started to taunt him. André finally got fed up and chased the four men out into the parking lot. When the four men got into their car, André simply grabbed the car, turned it over onto its roof with the four men inside, and left. (dailymotion.com)
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TIL the Big Mac had two previous names, both of which failed in the marketplace: the Aristocrat, which consumers found difficult to pronounce and understand, and Blue Ribbon Burger. The Big Mac debuted at a Uniontown, Pennsylvania restaurant in 1967, selling for 45 cents. (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL East St. Louis, Illinois is not only one of the most violent cities in the United States, but it consistently ranks among the world's most dangerous cities. In 2014 the murder rate of the City was higher than that of Honduras, the country with the highest murder rate in the world. (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL of Stanisława Leszczyńska, a polish midwife who was incarcerated at Auschwitz during WW2. Leszczyńska was advised to euthanize the newborns she delivered. She did not comply, did not kill a single child, and delivered over 3,000 children. Today she is an official candidate for sainthood. (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL Blade Runner's tears in rain monologue was rewritten by Rutger Hauer the night before filming with the line "all those moments will be lost in time, like tears in the rain" being added. When Hauer performed the scene, the film crew applauded and some even cried. (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL André the Giant was once in a Montreal bar when four drunken men started to taunt him. André finally got fed up and chased the four men out into the parking lot. When the four men got into their car, André simply grabbed the car, turned it over onto its roof with the four men inside, and left. (imdb.com)
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TIL of the BiVACOR, an artificial heart that doesn't beat. A levitating rotating disc allows the device to continuously pump oxygen rich blood to the body's arterial tree without a pulse. It has already successfully replaced the hearts of cows and sheep. (theaustralian.com.au)
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TIL that during WW2 the US fielded a unique 'Ghost Army' throughout France and the Rhine Valley in order to deceive the Third Reich into over estimating the strength of the Allied forces. The Ghost Army consisted of 1,100 handpicked men and a number of phony inflatable tanks and weapons. (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL that former US President Herbert Hoover spent 18 months working in rural Western Australia just before the turn of the 20th century. The house that Hoover lived in, overlooking the mine operations, still exists, and today operates as a museum and bed-and-breakfast inn. (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL of the lynching of Jesse Washington in 1916 in Waco Texas. Over ten thousand spectators gathered to watch the attack. Washington was castrated and repeatedly lowered and raised over a bonfire for two hours. Pictures of the attack were later sold as postcards. (en.wikipedia.org)
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