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TIL Vito Corleone’s cat in The Godfather was a stray that had wandered onto the set.
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TIL of an old English anecdote claiming that ‘Sirloin steak’ is derived from an occasion when King James I of England, while being entertained at Hoghton Tower in 1617, was so impressed by the quality of his steak that he knighted the loin of beef, which was referred to thereafter as “Sir loin”
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TIL that the initial plot for 9/11 was to hijack 10 planes and additional targets included the FBI/CIA HQs and nuclear plants. All male passengers of the final plane were to be murdered before landing it, where the pilot planned to make a speech.
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TIL: Journalist Dorothy Kilgallen was the only person to have a private interview with Jack Ruby, the man who shot Lee Oswald. She told friends about the JFK assassination “If its the last thing I do I’m going to break this case” -she never did. She was found dead in mysterious circumstances.
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TIL that we measure angles out of 360 degrees because the Sumerians divided the circular path of the sun in the sky into 360 degrees to track the sun's daily position, it took about 360 days for the sun to complete a full circuit across the sky. This all happened approximately 2400 BC.