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TIL the 1985 film "Better Off Dead" was semi-biographical. The writer-director really did have a girlfriend break up with him to go out with the captain of the ski team. He really was heartbroken and suicidal over it...and the paperboy that wanted his two dollars...yeah... that was a thing too!

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d8GNE TIL in 1896, two locomotives were crashed on purpose as a publicity stunt. Two spectators were killed by the boiler explosion. The responsible agent was fired and reemployed on the next day because of lacking negative publicity.
Wme9 TIL following the 1960 Chilean Earthquake, A 5 year old boy was killed as a human sacrifice ritual. The men who murdered him were released from jail after 2 years. A judge ruled that those involved had “acted without free will, driven by an irresistible natural force of ancestral tradition.”
XKw6 TIL that Christians introduced “Christian Power Cards” to compete with Pokemon due to the concept of ‘Pokemon Evolution’ going against the Biblical creation account in Genesis.
woArE TIL In 1952, the Pakistani army and Pakistani navy communicated a military signal titled “File 1971” that predicted the separation of East Pakistan. Not only did the file predict East Pakistan’s separation but the title coincidentally contains the year in which the separation actually happened
mnKv TIL the Portuguese man o’ war isn’t a jellyfish and isn’t even a single organism. Instead, it is a colony of smaller interdependent organisms. It can also deflate its sail to avoid attack.