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TIL: Unclaimed dead in NYC are buried in a mass grave on an island run by the Dept. of Corrections and staffed by convicts; Over 50,000 bodies are buried there and the press isn’t allowed to enter.

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Br08K TIL: Irish actor Liam Neeson (Taken, Schindler's List, etc.) was offered the role of James Bond, but turned it down because his fiancée told him she wouldn't marry him if he took the role.
b6xvp TIL on the last day of filming 'Old School', Vince Vaughn and his friends were invited to hang out in Snoop Dogg's trailer to play video games. Vaughn recalled seeing Luke Wilson later watching the news alone in his trailer. He had not been informed of the get-together.
x6Nb TIL the Swiss Guard, known now as the guys in the silly costumes that stand around the Vatican holding spears, once stood against an army as it sacked Rome. 189 Guard stood against 20,000 invaders at the Vatican long enough for Pope Clement VII to escape the city.
oBj9A TIL: In his college days, Steve Wozniak used a blue box (an illegal phone hacking device) to call the Vatican. He pretended to be Henry Kissinger and asked to speak with the Pope but was denied because the Pope was asleep.
wLVM1 TIL Bill Bixby, who played the original Incredible Hulk's David Banner, had a 7-year old son who died in 1981 of a rare infection. His wife committed suicide as a result of their loss. Bill's next marriage ended in divorce at the same time he was diagnosed with cancer. Bill died in 1993 at age 59.