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TIL In 1980 Marienetta Jirkowsky became the youngest and last woman killed attempting to cross the Berlin Wall. Fleeing East Germany with a friend and her fiance she was shot by border guards and died at the age of 18.

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8epMX TIL that Finnish NHL player Esa Tikkanen was known for his indecipherable speech called Tiki-Talk or Tikkanese. Wayne Gretzky once remarked, "He brings something special. I don't know what it is, but if you ask him, you couldn't understand his answer."
LQ6XZ TIL following the success of the National Lampoon's Animal House, Mad magazine lent its name to the comedy film, Up the Academy but it was such a commercial and critical failure that Mad arranged for all references to the magazine to be removed from future TV and video releases of the film.
xV6gD TIL that some Russian scientists are trying to restore a small region of Russia to the way it would've looked ~10,000 years ago, in a project called Pleistocene Park
7Lmr TIL that famous paparazzo Ron Galella was once punched in the face so hard by Marlon Brando that his jaw broke and he lost five teeth. The next time he took Brando’s picture, he wore a football helmet.
Y7nav TIL The International UFO Museum & Research Center was opened in Roswell, New Mexico in 1992 by Walter Haut, a been public information officer at Roswell Army Air Field in 1947. Many visitors come numerous times and some spend days or even weeks doing research in the library