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TIL John Candy was considered by many to be one of the most genuinely nice people in Hollywood/Show Business. Many of his friends state that he never had anything bad to say about anyone.

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MewM8 TIL Frank Freashwaters, the man known to many simply as the “Shawshank fugitive” for his 56 years on the run from an infamous Ohio correctional facility was captured in May 2015. After spending most of his life as a fugitive, Freshwater was cleared for release by a parole board in 2016.
wKvE TIL in 2002 a car was reported running off the road in Surrey, England by multiple witnesses. Police arrive and found no signs of a crash. After a careful search the car and driver were finally found but it was determined the accident occurred 5 months earlier.
BgQYW TIL: In 2022, a pair of trousers belonging to a 17th century court dwarf was sold for £10k. It belonged to Sir Jeffrey Hudson or as he was known "Lord Minimus", a favored dwarf who was enslaved and presented to the queen in a pie. He was later banished for killing a man in a duel.
7oPb TIL in negotiations to sell, one of Reddit’s founders “determined to be a hard-negotiating 22-year-old, told Conde Nast that it couldn’t buy Reddit unless the founders each got $1 million.” He later said “A million dollars isn’t as much as I thought it was.”
bdMp TIL of the word “dumbsize”: to reduce the staff numbers of a company to such low levels that work can no longer be carried out effectively.