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TIL that on Dec. 6, 1989, an anti-feminist shot 14 people to death because they were women studying engineering

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Lk1pQ TIL that the two of the US pilots who were able to take off during the attack on Pearl Harbor and down 7 enemy aircraft in the process were denied the Medal of Honor because their commanding officer said they had "taken off without orders".
1660P TIL in the 1960s David Stein sold three watercolors purportedly by artist Marc Chagall to an art dealer. They were fake as Stein had painted them that day. He may have gotten away with it, but Marc Chagall just happened to meet the dealer on that very same day. Stein became an artist after prison.
yVGbp TIL the 1990 Larry Cohen film "The Ambulance" is the first film to feature a Stan Lee cameo.
ryLW TIL that Jimmy Smits (Miguel) nearly killed a stunt man while shooting Dexter with a real knife.
KOY1B TIL While on the run the once drug lord Pablo Escobar burned two million dollars to keep his family warm at an unpowered mountainside hideout.