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TIL In 2011 Los Zetas kidnapped hundreds of innocent bus passengers in Mexico and made them fight to death like gladiators. The winners were sent on suicide missions

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BrwEW TIL Lemmings do not engage in mass suicidal dives off cliffs when migrating. This misconception was popularized by the Disney film White Wilderness, which shot many of the migration scenes on a large, snow-covered turntable in a studio. Photographers later pushed the lemmings off a cliff
lngB TIL that the first film with a PG-13 rating placed on it was Red Dawn.
a8pVN TIL After pressure from his parents and advice from his college tutors, Bob Klose quit the band Tea Set in mid-1965. In late-1965 the band rebranded as Pink Floyd.
5EmQ TIL that a group of “illegal restorers” broke into the Paris Panthéon, set up a secret workshop, and repaired the monument’s broken clock.
Menl0 TIL of the "Brown Ocean Effect", wherein tropical cyclones maintain their strength of even intensify after making landfall. Tropical Storm Erin (2007) and Bill (2015) both exhibited characteristics of this phenomenon.