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TIL the film "Close encounters of the Third Kind" is shown every single night at the Devil Tower KOA, making it one of the most screened movies ever.

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BrQrk TIL 89-year-old woman catalogued all the mail she gets from nonprofit fund-raisers. One year, she got 868 solicitations. Charities scrounging for donations send promotional notepads, calculators, magnifying glasses and other stuff. She collects it and gives it away -- to charity, of course.
R7amw TIL that because of a misunderstanding over the phrase "Cover me!", US Marines (working with the LAPD) shot over 200 bullets into a house while attending to a domestic dispute during the L.A riots in 1992.
awleM TIL Carlos Rodriguez is known as 'The man without a brain'. He survived a car accident while on drugs and made a full recovery with all of his mental abilities and memories intact except for missing an astonishingly large portion of his brain and skull.
9wN1m TIL that the Japanese version of The Ring had a sequel called Spiral which was released at the same time as The Ring. While The Ring became a success, Spiral flopped so they had to make Ring 2 to replace it as the sequel.
JGQB TIL In Iceland, you can hand-draw- a map on a piece of mail without an address, and it will still make it to it’s destination.