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TIL: after rejecting a scholarship offer to Harvard at age 16 in 1931, Orson Welles travelled to Europe. While in Dublin, he walked into a theatre and claimed he was a broadway star. The manager, impressed by his audition and brashness, gave him work, and that same year, Welles made his stage debut.

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XLwE TIL of Richard Jewell who became a national hero for saving hundreds of lives when he spotted a bomb at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, only to be wrongly accused of the crime 3 days later
wdQo TIL when Paris’s Cemetery of the Innocents was moved, the human remains (decomposed to mostly fat deposits) were made into candles.
M69m TIL in a small town in County Cork, Ireland, a monument stands in appreciation to the American Choctaw Indian Tribe. Although impoverished, shortly after being forced to walk the Trail of Tears, the tribe somehow gathered $170 to send to Ireland for famine relief in 1847.
l7KW1 TIL the only reason why Led Zeppelin didn’t perform at Woodstock 1969 was because the band’s manager, Peter Grant, decided that Led Zeppelin would be better off playing at the Asbury Park Convention Hall in New Jersey.
1JW TIL in Indiana Kit-Kat, Nestle Crunch, and Twix bars are tax exempt. All other candy is taxable.