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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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MejNV TIL about hypnagogia, the transition between wakefulness and sleep during which many hallucinations can occur, including the sensation of being bigger/smaller than yourself, floating, or falling.
5YWar TIL that Coca-Cola used to have a small amount of cocaine in it. It was added there for “medicinal purposes” and was the “Coca” in “Coca-Cola”. The “Cola” in it’s name was named after the kola nuts in the drink.
Z85nG TIL In 1863, an escaped slave named Gordon stumbled into Union Army territory in Louisiana. He had trekked 80 miles after escaping a Mississippi plantation, where he had been whipped so badly that he almost died. His haunting image of gruesome injuries became a rallying cry across the North.
Pvdg TIL a Russian billionaire named Dmitry Itskov is working on a project known as the 2045 initiative with the end goal of it being to create a complete working model of a persons brain and putting in a robotic body with the hopes of completing it by 2045.
oBoyA TIL that Carrie Henn as Newt in James Cameron's Aliens (1986) was chosen out of 500 children. Although she had no previous acting experience, she received a Saturn Award for Best Performance by a Younger Actor. It is her only credited acting role as she opted not to pursue an acting career