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TIL that Judy Garland once performed in blackface.

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VMNDG TIL the movie title RED stands for Retired, Extremely Dangerous. Learned it while watching Grant Imahara and RPG's during our Mythbusters marathon. ❤❤
e0KE TIL the security director for Morgan Stanley in the WTC predicted airliners crashing into the towers, drew up a detailed plan accordingly, and used it to swiftly evacuate all but 13 of 2700 Morgan Stanley employees and hundreds more. He died when the buildings collapsed.
mnPY TIL Jesus is mentioned more times in the Koran than Muhammad
BEQr TIL SR-71 Blackbird pilots where tasked to fly over foreign ceremonies to lay down a sonic boom when heads of state were greeting each other. Just to remind them that what they were doing was against US policy.
mxA0p TIL about the modern 300 - in 1821, during the Greek War of Independence, 120 Greek men held out against 8,000 Ottoman soldiers, causing 900 casualties against 6 of their own deaths. This bought time for the Greek army to regroup.