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8ePAV TIL someone (a stuntman) was killed on the set of the third installment of 'The Crow' (titled 'Stairway to Heaven') as well.
gMB4D TIL: 6 years after resigning, Nixon testified on behalf of former FBI assistant director Mark Felt at Felt's own trial, and gave money to Felt's defense fund. In 2005 Felt revealed he had been "Deep Throat", Bob Woodward's source while breaking the Watergate scandal that led to Nixon's resignation.
nmDd TIL PETA thinks Pokemon promotes animal cruelty
mery TIL the average person checks their phone 150 times a day, every six-and-a-half minutes.
ebWg TIL that when the first phone book was published in 1878, it was just a list of people who owned telephones, with no numbers provided