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TIL Former Montreal Canadiens organization player Blake Geoffrion’s father, grandfather, and great grandfather also played for the Canadiens.

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awXyL TIL Typist Linda Chen worked without pay in the Pulp Fiction screenplay, on the condition that Tarantino would rabbit-sit Honey Bunny, her pet, when she went on location. He refused, and the rabbit later died; Tarantino named the character in Pulp Fiction played by Amanda Plummer in homage to it.
obr TIL Bill Murray once broke Robert De Niro’s nose
ne7od TIL of one of the most inaccurately named men in history: Charles Coward. While in German captivity, he traded clothes with a Jewish inmate so he could report to the British on what was happening in Auschwitz, and later testifyed in Nuremberg.
a8WbN TIL these 12 companies own over 550 consumer brands. Absolutely Wild...
R7ly7 TIL about the El Cazador shipwreck, a single ship carrying 19 tons of Spanish silver sunk in 1784, causing Spain to give up Louisiana to France. Had this ship not sunk, the Louisiana Purchase never would have happened.