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TIL of Aaron Mitchell, a man who tried to kill himself by running into a large fire at Burning Man in 2017. He was pulled from the fire and died several days later.

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YXeW Today I learned that the great composer Karlheinz Stockhausen, claimed to be from the Sirius star system.
968r TIL Operation CHAOS was a domestic espionage project conducted by the CIA to spy on the student antiwar movement
ADZ1x TIL Rian Johnson wanted to show extreme violence in The Last Jedi's final battle, but couldn't do so in a PG-13 movie. To solve this, the planet Crait was covered in a layer of salt which, when displaced by the fighting, revealed a red landscape and made the battlefield appear drenched in blood.
X0JA6 TIL in 2012 an Oregon woman found a letter from a Chinese labor camp prisoner in a box of Halloween decorations she bought from Kmart. She publicized the letter. The man, who had been released in 2010, saw a news story about it and wrote another letter just for her, thanking her for doing that.
5YX8R TIL that production of “No Country for Old Men” in Marfa, Texas was shut down for a day because of smoke drifting over from the nearby set of “There Will Be Blood”