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TIL that the Pink Panther and Halloween films have sequel subtitles in common: Return, Revenge, and Curse

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oBjBr TIL At age 30, Dan McLaughlin with no golf experience, quit his job and dedicated to train to be a pro golfer. His philosophy was 10k hours to become an expert, and with the help of psychologists and trainers he was able to get a 2.5 handicap (top 6%), but his back went out at 6k hours and he quit.
VMwnZ TIL that Michel "Marshal" Ney 'refused to wear a blindfold and was allowed the right to give the order to fire' at his own Execution.
nOKr TIL that the American oil company Texaco directly supported the Spanish Fascist Fransisco Franco in his war against democracy in the 1930’s. He provided fuel to the Nazis and the Spanish/Italian Fascists and intel to help bomb Democratic fuel ships
9Ebr TIL the “Door to Hell” in Turkmenistan is a natural gas field that collapsed into an underground cavern in 1971, becoming a natural gas crater. Wanting to prevent spread of methane gas, Geologists set it on fire expecting it to burn out in a few weeks- It has instead continued to burn for >4 decades
Z8vNB TIL Sigmund Freud, who has such profound affect on finding the cause and cure of mental illness, was addicted to cocaine and died because of smoking