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TIL ''The Wizard of Oz'' and ''Gone with the Wind'' were directed by the same person in the same year

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Z8JrQ TIL about the Kentucky meat shower of 1876, where pieces of meat appeared to fall on Bath County. One theory is that a flock of vultures vomited in the area; the meat was said to taste like lamb or deer. Another is that the meat was a cyanobacteria which expands to a jelly-like mass when wet.
DMre TIL that they had a cocaine budget for the making of the Blues Brothers
B4Gk TIL that the Miami Bath Salts Cannibal was actually not high on bath salts when he ate the face off of another man along the MacArthur Causeway three years ago
N7w6J TIL that plebeians from the Roman Empire abandoned the city in a form of protest, known as Secessio plebis, leaving the streets completely empty and the wealthy unable to enforce their power.
0wboN TIL when Jack Gordon tried to bribe Senator Harry Reid back when he was the Nevada gaming commissioner, he notified the FBI and on the day of the sting, he screamed 'You son of a bitch!' and tried to STRANGLE Gordon, but the FBI agents pulled Reid off of him.