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TIL in Portland, Oregon (2006) a 58 year old husband hired a Hit man to murder his wife. When his wife returned home she encountered an intruder wielding a claw hammer. After a struggle, the 51-year-old nurse fended off her attacker by strangling him with her bare hands.

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J8Vm TIL author George Burns wrote a book called “How to live to be 100”. He was born in 1896 and died in 1996.
M7JXb TIL of the Affair of the Dancing Lamas, where a filmmaker got in trouble with Tibetan authorities after they got offended at Tibetan lamas promoting his documentary with dances. It’s cited as a reason for Tibet receiving less reforms and why it was less prepared for the Chinese invasion of 1950.
dvlj TIL The Diplomatic Immunity guy in Lethal Weapon 2 couldn’t have DI. He’d have Consular Immunity, making him subject to search, arrest, detainment and prosecution. DI is limited to embassy workers, and embassies can only exist in a host country’s capital city. Only a consulate can exist in LA.
6jWm TIL the Michael Bay film Pearl Harbor costed $140 million to produce, as much as the actual rebuilding of Pearl Harbor, and lasts a full hour longer than the actual attack.
QmWL TIL Some Chinese companies hire white actors to pretend to be foreign businessmen so that the companies can seem more connected globally.