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TIL at least 3 Beatles fans committed suicide after Lennon was murdered

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Zpgeo TIL about Aaron Feuerstein who was CEO of Malden Mills when it was destroyed in a fire in 1995. Instead of laying off all 3000 employees, he spent the insurance moenyto pay their salaries and benefits while the mill was being rebuilt. This cost him personally $25,000,000 and his CEO position.
x69BD TIL during making of Rockstar Games' Red Dead Redemption 2, Arthur Morgan's actor Roger Clark was told that he had to do the horse lines again because "It’s a little too intimate. It sounds like you’re not talking to a horse". After hearing the recording back, the actor agreed to redo the lines.
Dpke TIL many of the creatures in the ‘Silent Hill’ movie were played by dancers so they could make disturbing movements.
N7EB6 TIL that houses were blown up or demolished during the Great Fire of London in 1666 in an effort to contain and stop the fires.
7rx1Z TIL of Operation Wikinger, where in February of 1940, because of poor communication between the German Kreigsmarine and the Luftwaffe, there was an intense fight between them, resulting in the loss of 578 German sailors and 2 destroyers despite there being no Allied forces anywhere near the battle