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TIL real-life vigilante crime fighters exist in Seattle under the name “Rain City Superhero Movement”

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LnDZ TIL in 1996 the IRA planted a bomb in Manchester City centre and told the authorities they had an hour to evacuate the area. The police successfully managed to evacuate 75,000 people in what has been called the most ‘extraordinary policing operations’ in UK history. There wasn’t a single fatality.
jN6gX TIL Stanley Kubrick appointed French Director Bertrand Tavernier as his publicist in France and he was asking him regularly about strange stuff like types of lamps in theaters, Tavernier resigned after 3 months and told him: As a film-maker you are a genius but as an employer you are an imbecile.
R7k6j TIL that the man who originally came up with password practices (changing every 90 days, using caps/special characters) recanted most of his advice in 2017
Y78v TIL You could buy an Electric Car with the same 100 mile range as a brand new Nissan Leaf over 100 years ago!
GZB7 TIL there is a nail polish that detects date rape drugs.