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TIL Writer Boris Vian was so upset with the producers that adapted his most famous book on screen he collapsed from cardiac arrest and died while attending the movie premiere, cursing the executives with his last words
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TIL Former fire captain/fire investigator John Orr was one of the most prolific serial arsonists in US history. He set over 2000 fires, killing 4, and after his capture brush fires in the foothills of California decreased by 90% from an average of over 60 per year to just 1 per year.
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TIL that the Lobster War was a three-year long war between Brazil and France over spiny lobsters in Brazil's coast. The Brazilian government refused to allow French vessels to catch spiny lobsters 100 miles off the Brazilian coast. No one died during the conflict