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TIL The town of Tikrit in Iraq erected a monument of the shoe thrown at Geroge W Bush.

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xW6D TIL after United Airlines broke Dave Carroll’s $4500 guitar and refused to pay he wrote a protest song. Over the next 4 weeks United’s stock price fell 10%, costing stockholders $180 million.
d8JQB TIL Nintendo started as a Card Company in 1889 and launched Hanafuda Cards and these cards were actually used in Japan as a replacement of Gambling Cards as they were banned by Japanese Government
BjPd TIL of Ricky Ray Rector who, after murdering a man in a nightclub, agreed to turn himself in. Instead, he shot the negotiating officer in the back, killing him. He then attempted suicide but failed, effectively lobotomizing himself. In prison he saved part of his last meal for “after the execution”
P1NBE TIL the first take of the London Symphony Orchestra recording John Williams's "Superman" theme was ruined by director Richard Donner running out of the control room and onto the studio floor screaming, "Bravo! Genius!" because he "heard" the theme "saying Superman's name": "SU-PER-MAAAAAN".
816L TIL that there’s a town in Pennsylvania which has a coal mine burning underneath it for the last 50 years. Everybody moved out except 9 people, and the fire is expected to go on another 250 years.