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TIL the FBI Mined Grocery Store Records for Falafel Purchases to Find Iranian Terrorists

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7vRx TIL that Harry Potter was the most banned book in the US for 2001 and 2002, for the reasons of being “anti-family, occult/Satanism, religious viewpoint, violence”.
e0j0g TIL William Friedkin (Exorcist, French Connection) came upon the idea for the 'wrong-way chase scene' in To Live and Die in LA when he fell asleep at the wheel and woke up in the wrong lane with traffic heading straight for him. He spent the next 20 years wondering how he would use it in a film.
6Ex18 TIL About the Moriori Genocide, in which the Taranaki Tribe of the South Island of New Zealand slaughtered almost all of the peaceful and non-violent Moriori of the Chatham Archipelago.
p8aDO TIL that In 2009, the film Braveheart was second on a list of "most historically inaccurate movies" in The Times.
X04xD TIL a picture of H. H. Holmes, the serial killer, hangs in the University of Michigan hospital as part of their historic class photos. He graduated from their medical school in 1884 under the name of H. W. Mudgett