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TIL that in October 1994, Pulp Fiction, Forrest Gump, The Shawshank Redemption, The Lion King and Jurassic Park were all in theaters at the same time.

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e0l95 TIL about Casimir Pulaski, a Polish nobleman who saved the life of George Washington, became a general in the Continental Army, and is considered “the father of the American cavalry”. He died leading a daring charge against British forces during American Revolutionary War
VMPyB TIL: on tour in 1974 Frank Sinatra referred to Australian female journalists as buck & a half hookers, the resulting public outrage saw the unions black ban him. The tour resumed after future Prime Minister Bob Hawke brokered a deal over a bottle of brandy & Sinatra issued a "statement of regret"
GY9PN TIL In 1965 Milton Olive III sacrificed his own life to save a group of soldiers by smothering a live grenade. He was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor award, becoming the first African American of the Vietnam War to do so.
OA04 TIL that in 2011 it was revealed that the US have a spy operation that manipulates social media (including sites like Reddit, incase you hadn’t already noticed….)
M7R0 TIL the word “nothing” was Elizabethan slang for vagina and that the play “Much Ado About Nothing” was a shameless, dirty pun