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TIL a man was cleared of murder charges after outtake footage shot for Curb Your Enthusiasm showed him attending a Los Angeles Dodgers baseball game some 20 miles from the crime scene at the time of the murder

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9wQXG TIL something that is RECURRING happens over and over again, at regular intervals. In contrast, something that is REOCCURRING is simply happening again but not always repeatedly.
mxNMv TIL that a prominent slavery apologist in the antebellum South argued that slavery was so wonderful it should be extended to whites
P65V TIL During WWII, when he realised his guns had malfunctioned, an RAF pilot prevented a German bomber from bombing Buckingham Palace by cutting the German plane in half with the wing of his Hawker Hurricane.
P1WrG TIL in the 50s Disneyland offered fishing on Tom Sawyer Island in an area called Catfish Cove. Guests could borrow a pole and a can of worms to try and catch fish. They offered to clean, ice and store them until close at a restaurant. It was promptly ended after fish were discarded all over the park
geQA TIL that Wilhelm Furtwängler, a leading German conductor, called Hitler a “hissing street pedlar” and an “enemy of the human race”. He also refused to give the Nazi salute, wrote public letters denouncing antisemitism, and once got into a shouting match with Hitler over Nazi cultural policy.