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TIL The movie “Straight Out of Compton” wasn’t played in Compton because it has no movie theaters

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XE04Q TIL that modern fire departments/brigades have their origins from when property-insurance companies had their own fire departments.
QJBJa TIL Marvin Heemeyer had an ongoing feud with the local officials in Grandy Colorado so he covered a bulldozer in metal and concrete armor with gun ports and went on a $7,000,000 rampage on June 4th 2004. He committed suicide when the "Killdozer" became trapped after falling into a basement.
OojpX TIL: Scrum methodology was introduced by Asian men, Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka, in their 1986 Harvard Business Review article, 'The New New Product Development Game'.
gMprL TIL a British woman pranked her husband by pretending she had won the lottery. Three weeks later she actually won the lottery
1a99D TIL about Malone Mukwende. He is actively creating a free medical handbook on skin conditions for POC to bridge the gap of exclusively caucasian examples of various skin afflictions in his medical textbooks.