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TIL There’s 3 different cities named Murfreesboro.

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EgEd7 TIL 41 years ago, today, 3 people died on the set of Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983); under the negligent direction of John Landis, after he ordered a helicopter's tail-rotor directly over staged FX explosives. Bringing down the copter, decapitating two and crushing the other to death.
rLR4 TIL Jared from Subway ran a business where he’d rent pornography out of his dormroom at Indiana University. The endeavor became so successful that the only place he had time to eat at was the Subway that opened on the 1st floor of the building.
N7JK1 TIL that Dustin Hoffman was interested in playing Mario in the 1993 Super Mario Bros film, but was declined by Nintendo because they thought he didn't fit the role.
jNoOX TIL since the Middle Ages a "knacker man" was a person responsible for the removal of animal carcasses from private farms or public highways and rendering the collected carcasses into by-products. It was considered a disreputable occupation. They were also commissioned by the courts as executioners.
BQdr TIL that a giant rock performing an unbelievable balancing act on a seemingly smooth, curved mound in the dense forests of Finland is a mystery because nobody knows how it got there.