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TIL when Alexander Kerensky died in New York City in 1970, local Russian orthodox church refused to grant him burial rites for being a Freemason and seeing him as responsible for the Bolsheviks taking power. He was flown to London and buried in a non-denominational cemetery.

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N7mG1 TIL "The 1 Second Film" is a film project intending to feature 1 second of animation followed by 1 hour of credits. $1 or above donors to the film's crowdfund received a producer credit, this caused havoc as the IMDb listing reached over 3,000 producers. Ultimately the film was removed from IMDb.
6dGw TIL John Travolta, Chevy Chase, and Bill Murray all turned down the role of Forrest Gump & Ice Cube and Dave Chappelle both turned down the role of Bubba.
D8Og TIL that the founding father of Dubai said this about his city’s future: “My grandfather rode a camel, my father rode a camel, I drive a Mercedes, my son drives a Land Rover, his son will drive a Land Rover, but his son will ride a camel”
R5pR7 TIL Takashi Yanase (Anpanman creator) was a soldier during the Japanese occupation of China in World War II and lost his brother in the Pacific Theater. After the war, he became a children's book author and anti-war activist with "Chirin no Suzu" being an allegory for WWII.
e0D7J TIL 38 elders helped a linguist compile a dictionary of the Klallam language and one contributed 12,000 words to the dictionary over the years. When it was released, KIallam people from all over turned out for the dictionary signing ceremony and some cradled the book like a baby