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TIL That BurgerKing is Going Out of Business. Where else can I find an oreo shake as good as theirs? No where!

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LkgLm TIL that a Portuguese diplomat, Aristides de Sousa Mendes, saved more than 30000 people in WW2
vaRr TIL Def Jam Records founder Rick Rubin was in a punk band called The Pricks that asked friends to heckle during a gig in order to start a brawl leading to the band being kicked off stage & the show being shut down by a “cop” who was really Rubin’s father, in an effort to create buzz around the band
Mewna TIL of Charles O'Rear, a photographer who snapped the famous grassy hill (Bliss) image used as the default background for Windows XP. Another photo of his, "Full Moon over Red Dunes," was also considered for the default, yet was denied because testers thought the sand dunes resembled buttcheeks.
155W TIL two brothers died in NYC in 1947: one was killed by his own booby trap bringing food to his blind/paralyzed brother, who then starved to death in the maze of 140 tons of hoarded items in their house.
8aMgL TIL after dropping out, it took director Steven Spielberg 33 years to earn a bachelor’s degree from Cal State Long Beach. In 2002, he submitted "Schindler’s List" to satisfy his most important film school requirement.