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TIL: The guy who played Carlo in the Godfather shot and killed a member of the Medellin Cartel who was harassing a female patron in his casino and who had stabbed him with a broken bottle. Pablo Escobar put out a hit until he realized the target was in one of his favorite movies.

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R7VNa TIL of Ellen and William Craft, who escaped slavery by travelling openly from Macon, Georgia to Boston. Ellen, who was light skinned, dressed as a man with a sling to hide the fact that she could not write and passed as William's slave owner. Eventually, they fled to Liverpool, England.
0d9Bv TIL that the Greenlandic Inuit worked iron both from meteorites and lava flows that formed native iron metal.
xVdoD TIL of Theodore Hall, among the youngest Manhattan Project scientists. Finished high school at 14, graduated from Harvard at 18, and recruited for the nuclear program at 19. Fifty years later, near death, he admitted to having been a Soviet informant the entire time.
QoRd TIL the number of days Phil spends in the time loop of the movie Groundhog Day was estimated to be around 30-40 years
y7lJ TIL: that in 2008 PEPSI paid a branding company several hundred million dollars to reimagine their logo. The design document that company drafted later leaked onto the internet.