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TIL A latin teacher incited 3 of his students to assassinate the cruel Duke of Milan, an act they've been groomed for since childhood. Instead of being hailed as heroes, one was killed by the crowd, and one killed by a guard after he run towards a group of women and got tangled in their clothing

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7r01M TIL Film Industry of Nigeria (Nollywood) was ranked as world's second largest film producer with 872 films in 2009, ahead of the United States(485), Japan(417), China(330), and France(203). It was only left behind by India with 1091 films.
JLd1 TIL Nimrod was originally a great hunter in the Book of Genesis. In 1932, when Bugs Bunny called infamously bad hunter Elmer Fudd “nimrod” sarcastically in a Looney Tunes short, people missed the Biblical reference and assumed the word was just a generic insult.
DQkyg TIL of the the shipwreck of the American vessel General Grant in 1866 on a remote archipelago south of New Zealand. The few survivors of the wreck were stranded for 18 months before a passing ship rescued them. Their ordeal led to the creation of "Castaway Depots" which saved future sailors.
QJ0MX TIL that the last thylacine died in 1936, and, due to the fact that the zoo expected to find a replacement, they did not bother to keep records of the animal. In fact, its gender was only determined in 2011 by a team of researchers looking frame-by-frame at a video of it.
dD9md TIL that The Goonies and Back To The Future took place on the exact same day