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TIL Heath Ledger based much of the Joker’s voice and mannerisms on Tom Waits. This interview from 1979 is a great example.

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vPPMB TIL about David Cox, a former US Marine whose court martial was the inspiration for the play and film A Few Good Men, and whose murder in 1994 remains unsolved
XEKm8 TIL: For journalistic purposes, William Thomas Stead exposed child prostitution and abduction in 1885 by having a thirteen-year-old victim, Eliza Armstrong, "purchased" for £5 and taken to a brothel where she was drugged. He published this later in a series of exposés that shocked readers.
OdO4 TIL - 2000 was the first year Martin Luther King Jr. Day was officially observed in all 50 states
oBOwr TIL: Many jurisdictions use a "randomized alphabet", re-shuffled periodically, to determine the alphabetical order that candidates' names will appear on ballots, in order to prevent an unfair advantage for names starting with A.
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