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TIL That there's a movie none of us will live to see. Set to be released in 2115, the film "100 years" was written by John Malcovich and directed by Robert Rodriguez back in 2015.

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mxAeO TIL In 2009, 2 Egyptian fishermen were captured by Somali Pirates, The Egyptian hostages escaped by attacking and seizing the pirate’s guns and machetes and reversed the kidnapping by kidnapping the pirates to Yemen, They were offered flights from Yemen to Egypt but took their boats home instead.
x65Lb TIL Miklós Lászlós play Parfumerie was the basis of the movies The Shop Around the Corner, In the Good Old Summertime, and You Got Mail, and the musical She Loves Me, among other adaptations; all based around two people who hate each other in person but fall in love via correspondence.
b95Vj TIL about the Devil's Chair, a graveside bench in the cemetery in Cassadaga, Florida. According to local legend, an unopened beer left on the chair will be empty by morning. The Devil is sometimes said to appear to anyone bold enough to sit in the chair.
wkpP TIL that the Captain of the HMS Beagle nearly rejected Charles Darwin as a passenger on the basis that the shape of Darwin’s nose indicated a lack of determination
QVAp TIL the day after the Burning of Washington D.C. by British troops in 1814, a possible hurricane put out the flames, followed by a tornado that forced the British back to their ships. It became known as the “Storm that Saved Washington.”