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TIL that the director McG filmed a music video for “Turning Japanese” starring/sung by Kirsten Dunst to be included in the Tate Modern art gallery.

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AMkg TIL due to the interrogation techniques of the Soviets an innocent was executed for a serial killer’s first murder, and many others confessed to the subsequent killings. Four committed suicide due to the investigators’ tactics. The killer killed at least 53 over 12 years before being caught.
m1vDP TIL: Sogen Kato was a Japanese man thought to have been Tokyo's oldest man until July 2010, when his mummified corpse was found in his bedroom.
xRX1 TIL Andrew Jackson was the first sitting president to almost be assassinated. After the first pistol failed to be discharged a second pistol was pulled, that one too misfired. The likelihood of both pistols misfiring was 120,000 to 1.
KOBw6 TIL about Dr. Rodney Marks, an Australian astrophysicist who died from methanol poisoning while working at the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica. The cause of the fatal methanol poisoning has never been determined. Forty-nine other people were at the base at the time of Marks' death.
yQl0v TIL in 1687, the Parthenon in Athens exploded when it was hit by a Venetian mortar round in a war between Venice and the Turks. The building was being used by the Turks to store gunpowder. One account says the Turks did not expect the Venetians to target such a historic monument. 300 people died.