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TIL the 1983 movie "Trading Places" with Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy became a Christmas Eve classic in Italy, being broadcast by Italian television every year since 1986.

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7rOxO TIL In 1970, psychologist Timothy Leary was sentenced to 20 years in prison. On arrival, he was given a psychological evaluation (that he had designed himself) and answered the questions in a way that made him seem like a low risk. He was assigned to a lower-security prison from which he escaped.
JMLv TIL Actor James Stewart was also a poet. Once, while on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, he read a poem called “Beau” that he had written about his dog. By the end, Carson had started crying.
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D6MY TIL the Tunguska Event, an explosion in Siberia in 1908, was 1,000 times greater than the atomic bomb dropped in Hiroshima, wiped out 80 million trees, and may have killed a total of 2 people