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TIL that Nicholas Cage’s uncle is Francis Ford Coppola and he denied Cage a role in The Godfather Part III

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Brd6D TIL a man was fined $9.4 million and sentenced to 8 years in jail for stealing 3,000 tonnes of maple syrup which cost $18.7 million from Quebec reserve in 2012.
ANLr4 TIL that a star 3000 light years away is about to reignite in an explosion so massive that it'll shine as bright as the North Star. This nova event won't happen again for another 80 years!
69WrY TIL More than 3 Million people were killed during the 1943 Bengal famine in India and Churchill's policies were to blame for this
ANZ8l TIL that the Titanic was not the first ship of it's production line. With the Titanics sister ship, the Olympic (which was only 3 inches shorter and 1000 tons lighter than the Titanic), having already served as a successful cruise liner for a whole year before the Titanics fateful maiden voyage.
Qvw6 TIL that Clair Patterson, the geochemist who discovered the Earth’s age to be 4.5 billion years old using lead isotopic data from the Canyon Diablo meteorite, also spearheaded the campaigning of the US government to finally ban of the use of lead in gasoline, paint and food packaging.