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TIL Rick Moranis and Geddy Lee attended Elementary School together.

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5YEb9 TIL Nixon's infamous "I'm not a crook" press conference took place in Disney World, also making it the first time a sitting president visited the resort
g9dL TIL the American government can classify your invention as “born secret” and keep it from the public
x6eGg TIL that when Star Wars was first being made in 1977 the long title crawl at the start of the film, describing the lore ahead of the action, was actually a 6ft long piece of black paper with yellow text, and the camera was then rolled over the paper to make it appear as if the text was moving.
b96dQ TIL in a 1988 episode of "Alvin and the Chipmunks" called "The Wall", the Chipmunks play a concert at the Berlin Wall and see it crumbling down, only to awaken from a dream and say, "It was just a dream, but it doesn't have to be." 11 months later, the Berlin Wall came down in real life.
yQXge TIL: 53-year-old former Chicago Sun Times Publisher, James Tyree, died accidentally from an air embolism and the family won a ten million dollar wrongful death suit settlement.