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TIL About the story behind the movie, Candyman. In 1987, Ruthie Mae McCoy, an inhabitant of the Projects, was shot 4 times after an unnamed assailant removed, and climbed through her medicine cabinet and left, and escaped, back through it. He/She was never apprehended.

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1a4xr TIL of Black September, an armed conflict that broke out in 1970 between the Palestinians and Jordan.
KO7w9 TIL in the 18th century rich people would keep ornamental hermits on their estate as a status symbol. They would be fed and cared for by the estate owner, almost like a pet.
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9YbyB TIL that Deep Purple's Smoke on the Water sounds eerily similar to Astrud Gilberto's Quiet Maria recorded in 1966
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