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9YWLM TIL that Frank Sheeran, the mob hitman whose life is depicted in Martin Scorsese's film "The Irishman," participated in the Dachau Massacre, during which scores of SS concentration camp guards were executed en masse by U.S. G.I.s after the camp was liberated in April 1945.
jNXp TIL that a man once fought of a bear attack by himself, was buried in a shallow grave by his peers, but regained consciousness with grave wounds and Trekked 200 miles through the wilderness without equipment whilst wearing the bear’s pelt for warmth.
0Bwy TIL in 1977 Billy Joel’s poorly-performing single “Only the Good Die Young” was banned by WSOU-FM, affiliated with Seton Hall University, for its supposed anti-Catholic themes. Other dioceses then started putting pressure on local stations to ban it. As a result of the controversy, sales skyrocketed
0wnpv TIL in the mini-series "Band of Brothers" (2001), Jimmy Fallon was so nervous during his cameo appearance, that he struggled to drive the standard WWII jeep, and feared he would hit the cast. Director Tom Hanks, eventually ordered 2 crew workers to push the Jeep around with Fallon at the wheel.
GYG0G TIL Blackbirding is the coercion of people through deception and/or kidnapping to work as unpaid or poorly paid labourers in countries distant to their native land. The practice continues to the present day, often forcing indigenous peoples in Central America to work as plantation labourers.