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TIL that there was an outbreak of the plague in the US during the 20th Century

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r7xW TIL when Team Canada’s Olympic gold medal-winning goalie Shannon Szabados was invited to take practice with the perennial last-place Edmonton Oilers in the spring of 2014, someone asked her if she was worried about getting hit on by the players. Her response: “Nope, they can’t score anyways.”
yVlPJ TIL for the movie Escape from New York (1981)،Snake Plissken's eyepatch was suggested by Kurt Russell. He pitched himself hard for the role of Snake Plissken, as he was very keen to shake off his Disney image.
ADg8g TIL that, while filming The Wolf of Wall Street, Martin Scorsese suggested to Margot Robbie that her character Naomi would wear a robe to seduce Jordan. Margot insisted on being nude. She later explained: ‘‘The whole point of Naomi is that her body is her only form of currency in this world.’’
aGP9 TIL of Harry Thaw who killed architect Stanford White and was acquitted based on the defense of “dementia Americana,” a phenomenon that caused American men to become temporarily insane and seek revenge against those who had tainted their wives’ virtue. Thaw had married White’s former mistress.
Lo5p TIL A 12-year-old girl was arrested, handcuffed, and detained at a police precinct for several hours for doodling on her desk in class.