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TIL Sue Grafton, known author of the "alphabet series" ('"A" Is for Alibi', '"B" Is for Burglar', etc) died months after the release of '"Y" is for Yesterday', leaving her one book shy of the complete series.

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4XnOa TIL full-time stagehands, the people responsible for moving and setting up equipment, at Carnegie Hall earn over $400,000 a year.
G554 TIL that Hitler’s chief architect, Albert Speer, was an adherent of the “theory of ruin value”: the architectural goal of constructing buildings that later collapse into aesthetically-pleasing ruins over the course of thousands of years.
OoaZX TIL that bluefin tuna can struggle so much when caught that it can literally cook itself due to the generated heat from the muscles
Mv8A TIL of ‘Paris Syndrome ’ where tourists suffer psychological distress or shock when the city does not live up th their expectations. It is common with Japanese tourists.
0lVv TIL that 91 of the 220 cast and crew of the movie The Conqueror, including John Wayne and Susan Hayward, died of cancer suspected to be caused by radioactivity in St. George, Utah, downwind of 1950s atomic bomb tests at the Nevada Test Site. The director shipped 60 tons of dirt back to Hollywood,too