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TIL that the first person to be voted out of the first version of Survivor committed suicide a month after going home.

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nx07 TIL that One-Eyed Willie’s pirate ship in the Goonies was constructed without the kids allowed to see it, hoping to get a real reaction from the cast for the first take. But when they rolled and revealed it, the gang was so shocked and started cursing up a storm. The scene had to be re-shot.
R7NW1 TIL That during a football match in the Democratic Republic of Congo, lightning struck and killed all eleven members of one team while their opponents went unscathed, fuelling intense rumors of witchcraft
GE7J TIL Sam Houston is the only person to be elected governor of two different states (TN and TX).
VGE8 TIL that Japan and Russia are still technically fighting World War II, a peace treaty having not been signed due to a continuing dispute over a few islands northeast of Japan.
GAWEj TIL in the middle of Boston, Massachusetts, there is a 120-year-old abandoned concert hall known as Steinert Hall that is 40 feet underground, buried beneath a piano store.