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TIL Angola was a part of the Portuguese Empire for 400 years. 1575-1975

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nNnd TIL Steve Buscemi was a New York City fire fighter from 1980 to 1984. After the events of 9/11, he showed up in NYC to volunteer, working twelve-hour shifts for a week, and digging through rubble with his old comrades looking for missing firefighters.
9wZ07 TIL Grand Island and Navy Island, near Niagara Falls was a proposed location for the UN headquarters
X0JOR TIL that because the 1978 film Halloween was filmed in the spring, the crew placed artificial and recycled leaves on the ground, sidewalks, and/or streets to make it appear more like autumn. The leaves were raked up after each of the scenes and then sent to the next filming location.
4YeR TIL that the police officer who took out Dimebag Darrell’s killer was so affected by the incident he had to give up his career due to PTSD and severe anxiety disorder.
x6oOg TIL that Swiss Balloonist, Auguste Piccard, was the inspiration for both Professor Calculus, in the Tintin comics, and that Gene Roddenberry named Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek after him.