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TIL that the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade purposely reroutes to try and avoid unauthorized CBS cameras

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KYy4B TIL Ken Smith lived as a hermit in the Scottish Highlands. After 40 years of isolation he travelled to Glasgow to attend the premier of a film made about his life as a hermit.
gLZ9 TIL that Randy Wools, a drug addict, helped executioners find a vein before he was executed through lethal injection.
d81AZ TIL After Eminem made a diss on Michael Jackson in 2005, Michael responded by buying Eminem's catalogue and making money off it every time he performed.
QNV1d TIL about Operation Nimrod, where the British SAS conducted a daring raid on the Iranian Embassy in London to rescue hostages. Six armed revolutionaries stormed the embassy and took 26 people hostage, resulting in a 6 day siege. 19 hostages were rescued and the raid was broadcasted live.
9wJj6 TIL that the US didn't have a unified intelligence agency until 1941, when Royal Navy Admiral John Godfrey, director of Naval Intelligence, met with President Roosevelt and urged its creation. Roosevelt agreed. Godfrey's assistant at the meeting was Lt. Cdr. Ian Fleming, who later wrote James Bond