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TIL That Spy Kids 1-4, Kill Bill 1 and 2, Machete, and Planet Terror are all based in the same Universe.

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OjJ7 TIL that Mark Twain was born shortly after a visit by Halley’s Comet, and he predicted that he would “go out with it”, too. He died the day after the comet returned.
YpOQZ TIL that, at the time of his death aged 97 years and 4 days, Harland Fairweather was the oldest person ever with a living parent. His mother Violent Brown died almost five months later at age 117.
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