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TIL that, on April 6, 1994, the presidents of Rwanda and Burundi were both assassinated when their plane was shot down. In Burundi, it was seen as a tragic accident and their president was in the wrong place at the wrong time. In Rwanda, it set in motion the Rwandan Genocide.

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N7X1P TIL: During the making of "Interview With The Vampire". Tom Cruise was the only person that read that entire Ann Rice's Vampire Chronical series. While the director was too lazy to read the book and Brad Pitt stopped after one chapter because he thought the book was stupid.
X0Mw6 TIL that Goldeneye 007 was almost released as a 2D game for Super NES but during its creation, development of the game eventually shifted to the newer Nintendo 64 game console.
J1AQm TIL that France sent the first cat into space in 1963. Félicette was a stray cat from the streets of Paris and was one of 14 cats trained for spaceflight. She survived her trip but was euthanised 2 months later.
XYEE TIL the largest Chinese community in Europe is found in the Tuscan city of Prato. Prato’s Chinese community consists of an estimated 20,000 legal and 30,000 illegal migrants, many working in sweatshops that provide affordable “Made in Italy” textiles for China’s emerging middle class.
W717Y TIL that Ween’s 1997 album “The Mollusk” was a great inspiration to Spongebob creator Stephen Hillenburg due to its underwater theme. In 1997, Hillenburg told Ween the baseline ideas of Spongebob, and asked for a song. The band wrote “Loop de Loop” for Hillenburg, later used in a SpongeBob episode.