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TIL that Steve Buscemi showed up at his old firehouse the day after the 9/11 tragedy in New York to volunteer, worked twelve hour shifts for a week digging through rubble looking for missing firefighters… anonymously.

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4X1eX TIL At a radiology conference in 1974, Lee Rogers, a physician who had mistakenly swallowed a soda can tab during a basketball game, addressed the hazard to the medical community, which lead to a redesign of a non-removable tab that reduced untold amounts of litter and injury to humans and wildlife.
PYLVV TIL that Wrinkles the clown was hired by desperate parents in Florida to scare and rein in their misbehaving kids.
ywna TIL Ernesto Miranda, of “Miranda Rights” fame, was stabbed to death at a bar in 1976. A suspect was arrested but he exercised his Miranda Rights and was released.
v5pj TIL that London’s famous “fog” is actually a form of air pollution, which killed 4,000 people during a two-week episode 1952.
nw8P TIL Lewis Lee Millett deserted the US Army when he thought they would not enter WW2 and joined the Canadian Army to fight. After the US Army joined WW2 he transferred back. In the Korean war he would be awarded the Medal Of Honor for leading the last major bayonet charge in American history.