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TIL about the death of Poltergeist actress Dominique Dunne. She was strangled into a coma by her ex-boyfriend and passed away 5 days later. He was convicted of voluntary manslaughter and served just three and a half years in prison.

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E19m7 TIL: The default location of an IP address in the USA, if no more granular location information is available, is mapped to a farm in Kansas. Because of this, the owners have been constantly harassed and visited by the FBI, IRS and others who have been scammed by someone with a US IP address
yoYv TIL during the Battle of Marathon in 490 BC, Herodotus recorded the first case of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder when a Greek named Epizelus became permanently blind without being hit.
a8LOb TIL The Spanish were the first European settlers in the Florida Keys, and upon unearthing a burial mound on one of the southernmost keys, they named it Caya Hueso, Bone Island, a name later Anglicized into Key West. Spain officially relinquished control of Florida to the United States in 1821.
RQd4 TIL if an aircraft is hijacked and forced to land at an airport, the pilot leaves the flaps of the aircraft down after landing as a covert visual cue to alert the control tower of a hijacking.
ANRo TIL a theater in Austin, TX strictly bans cell phone use of any kind and will kick you out, no refunds/no questions asked. They used an actual upset (and drunk) voicemail from someone who was kicked out as a PROMOTION for the theater. Kickass :)