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TIL on 9/11, the famous ice skating rink at Chelsea Piers in NYC was turned into a makeshift morgue

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9YGvG TIL the # 1 movie in China right now is ‘Battle at Lake Changjin', which glorifies a U.S. defeat collecting $890 million in ticket sales.
Y7D6Z TIL I learned that the surveillance technology in the 1998 movie "Enemy of the State", which shows the NSA hunting Will Smith using live satellite feeds, didn't exist until a government research engineer saw the movie and kicked started the development of Wide Area Motion Imagery (WAMI).
N1Gb TIL that in 1998, a man named Matthew Shepard was murdered by two men who tied him to a fence, and beat him until he died. Despite the homophobic rhetoric used during their trial Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson were not charged with a hate crime.
49bJ TIL that ABC has been cutting scenes from “A Charlie Brown Christmas” to make room for more commercials.
E1OXw TIL there's only 8 species of bears in the world: brown bears, Asian black bears, American black bears, sun bears, sloth bears, spectacled bears, polar bears, and giant pandas.