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TIL that Jason Schwartzman is a member of the Coppola family. His mother is Talia Shire, aka Adrian from Rocky, his uncle is Francis Ford Coppola, and his cousin is Nicolas Cage.

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kOA07 TIL the world record for the loudest thing ever shouted belongs to an Irish female teacher who shouted the word “quiet” at 121 decibels, the equivalent of a jet engine.
0wnpv TIL in the mini-series "Band of Brothers" (2001), Jimmy Fallon was so nervous during his cameo appearance, that he struggled to drive the standard WWII jeep, and feared he would hit the cast. Director Tom Hanks, eventually ordered 2 crew workers to push the Jeep around with Fallon at the wheel.
LQeVP TIL that even folk tales are classified as per the Aarne-Thompson-Uther (ATU) index which catalogues them into 2399 classes based on the overarching theme (animal, magical, religious and so on). For example Cinderella is ATU type 510.
A1Zo TIL in 1981, the Brazilian dictatorship planned an attack to an event attended by 20k people. The 2 soldiers that carried the attack made a mistake and ended up blowing the bomb on themselves (1 dead, 1 injured). The attack was planned to convince the country that left-wing guerrilas were a threat.
6EyOl TIL about St. Chad, who was instrumental in bringing Christianity to England in the 7th century AD. As he lived during a politically troubled time and 'chads' refers to holes from punched ballot papers, he was called the patron saint of botched elections in the 2002 US presidential elections.