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TiL that the Nazis trained and sent two teams of saboteurs to America. They were terrible, got caught on day 1 and only two escaped execution. One of the leaders rang the FBI and demanded to meet Hoover so he could surrender.

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wL1bo TIL the film Donnie Darko took only 28 days to shoot; coincidentally the timer in the movie counting down to the end of the world is approximately 28 days.
6EGRZ Today I learned that Run DMC was TOTALLY against doing a remake with Aerosmith for “Walk This Way.” They initially read the lyrics and called it “hillbilly bullshit”, and refused to do it. Rick Rubin “persuaded” them to do it, and the rest is history.
R7pvQ TIL that till 1915, It was legal to mail babies from one place to another in America, If they were under the 11 pound weight limit.
KOd7Q TIL an "eyebrow flash" is an unconscious gesture, wherein a person wishing to approach another whom they recognize and are preparing for social contact, raises their eyebrows for approx ⅕th of a second. People generally return an eyebrow flash, unless it was given by someone whom they do not know.
MeY7W TIL the difference between acronyms and initialisms. FBI is not an acronym but an initialism.