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TIL: everytime a missing child that appeared in the music video of runaway train was found, the photo was replaced with a new photo from another missing child

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ZnQ TIL that estimates for the amount of time Bill Murray’s character is trapped in the perpetual Groundhog Day range up to 34 years.
mxYrx TIL that several months before Russell Crowe won the Oscar for Gladiator, the FBI warned him that the al-Qaeda were planning to kidnap him as part of a “cultural destabilization plot”. For nearly two years, the FBI guarded Crowe in public and refused to give him any details about the threat.
b9bK9 TIL that the New York Times bestseller list is legally considered "editorial content," allowing the Times to exclude or include any book they want regardless of sales
m1JAx TIL the International Court of Justice could not conclusively decide whether a country may use nuclear weapons in self-defense if its survival is at stake.
nVRo TIL On their very first day of school children in Germany, The Czech Republic and Austria are given a cardboard cone (“Schultüte”) filled with toys and sweets.