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TIL Michael Shaara's book The Killer Angels, 1975 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, and the basis for the 1993 movie Gettysburg, reached the top of the NYT best seller list twenty years after being published. The Civil War battle novel is considered one of the best historic fictions ever written.

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jNorQ TIL that in the mass escape of POWs from the Stalag Luft III camp which inspired the film The Great Escape, only 3 prisoners made it to safety. The two Norwegians and a Dutch man made it to Sweden and England respectively. The remaining prisoners were swiftly recaptured.
D9oD Til: The first interracial kiss on TV was not on Star Trek. It was on a British medical soap opera in 1964.
6WmY TIL that for April Fools, Taco Bell claimed to have bought the Liberty Bell and was renaming it the “Taco Liberty Bell”, when the White House Press Secretary was asked about it, he said Ford was buying the Lincoln Memorial. And renaming it the Lincoln Mercury Memorial.“
kOBY7 TIL That the title of System of a Down’s “Chop Suey”, is word play derived from the original title of the song “Suicide”, and making it more radio friendly by litterally “chopping” the word “sui-cide”, thus the title “Chop Suey”.
AVGl TIL Robert Rodriguez started receiving phone calls at random hours of the day from Danny Trejo, trying to convince him to make the Machete film. Robert asked why Danny can’t just send a text message instead of constantly calling, to which Trejo replied: “Machete don’t text.”