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TIL the famous scene from the film Heat, where De Niro’s criminal and Pacino’s detective talk face to face over coffee, was based on the true story of a Detective Adamson tracking down a criminal McCauley in the 1960s. The two met for coffee and had a conversation almost word for word as in the film

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8Oo8 TIL of Mark DeFriest. Believed to be an autistic savant, DeFreist was sentenced to four years in prison for ‘stealing’ tools left to him in his father’s will in 1979. Able to to memorize and reproduce jailers’ keys simply by looking at them, he’s been imprisoned 36 years due to multiple escapes.
M7YP7 TIL- apples get Stem Cells in core🧐
e0vVE TIL: Nasa had a 400$ fine for littering in the australian outback due to debris from skylab
EgLX TIL the border between India and Bangladesh is so complicated, there is a “3rd order enclave”: a piece of India within Bangladesh, within India, within Bangladesh.
eYeg TIL that Italy’s economy is so weak that the “Latin lover” is on the decline. “The traditional kept mistress, secretly hidden away in her fully paid-up flat, and lavished with furs and jewels has been consigned to history”. Divorces are down, too, because men can’t afford to leave their wives.