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TIL that the Jack in Monterey Jack cheese was a salesman of cheese made by monks in Monterey

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NX5eJ TIL that during the 1936 summer Olympics in Berlin there was a gliding competition as a demonstration sport
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GeXG TIL that the BTK serial killer had a job installing security systems. Many of his clients booked the company to stop BTK from entering their homes, unaware that BTK himself was installing them.
b64nj TIL David Cronenberg's early horror film, The Brood, was his answer to the optimistic divorce drama Kramer vs. Kramer released the same year. He also intentionally cast the main couple in the film to resemble Cronenberg and his wife. He considered it his "most cathartically satisfying film."
dvo8 TIL in 1999 the family of MLK filed a wrongful death suit claiming James Earl Ray was innocent and a government conspiracy assassinated King. The jury came out in agreement with the King family, finding that there was a conspiracy.