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TIL Steve Buscemi volunteered at his old firehouse the day after the 9/11 attacks, working twelve-hour shifts for a week, and digging through rubble looking for missing firefighters

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XngQ TIL the DJ “scratch” was accidentally created when Grand Wizard held a spinning record in place so he could hear his mom, who was yelling at him.
9ogM TIL The samurai scene in Kill Bill where The Bride fights against the Crazy 88 was so bloody that the MPAA wanted director Quentin Tarantino to cut it in order to maintain an R rating. To get around it, he altered the colors in the scene to black and white.
Zp76G TIL Ethiopia sent troops to South Korea during the Korean War, making it the only African country to do so.
mxrDo TIL Goats prefer happy people. They can differentiate between human facial expressions and prefer to interact with happy people.
6ErBZ TIL of the "My Way Killings", a social phenomon in the Philipines where violence and murder often occur after someone performes Frank Sinatra's hit My Way on a Karaoke machine. At least 12 people have died from it.