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TIL that Oscar winner Marion Cotillard is both a 9/11 denier and doubts the moon landing.

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D1M0g TIL that Sergio Leone and Ennio Morricone were classmates early in life before becoming collaborators in film later on
grOk8 TIL that a dump truck caused a New York City elevated freeway to collapse in 1973. The truck was found to have been 9 tons overloaded and the company operating it was blamed. The contract to clean up the results of the failure was subsequently awarded to the same company.
78l0L TIL A Chippewa Indian Named John Smith Who Lived In The Woods Near Cass Lake, Minnesota Claimed To Be 137 Years Old Before He Died In 1922.
aw5XN TIL after his father and brother were killed by Confederate Home Guard, Henry Berry Lowrie led a band of American Indian, White, and African-American men in a guerrilla war against the Confederacy and later the upper class. He obtained a Robbin Hood like status and vanished without a trace in 1872.
06MR TIL that magpie attacks in Australia have led cyclists to put spikes on their helmets.