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TIL about Jean-Claude Romand who lied about being a medical doctor for 18 years before killing his wife, children and parents when he was about to be exposed

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p8BEe TIL that Fight Club, The Green Mile, American Beauty, The Sixth Sense, Magnolia, Toy Story 2, and Being John Malkovich were all playing in theaters on December 24, 1999.
pYZj4 TIL that while shooting a TV series, 12-year-old Kurt Russell gave co-star Charles Bronson a birthday gift but the older actor walked away without responding. Bronson, who grew up very poor, later thanked Russell, explaining he had never been given a birthday gift before.
loVE7 TIL: The ceremonial podium from the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo was used as an execution site during the area's warfare in the 1990s. Restorers working after the '92-'95 Siege of Sarajevo patched-up the scarred cement and filled in the many bullet holes.
QN8aL TIL the origin of the British National Anthem is believed by some to have originated in a prayer made for French King Louis XIV when he had an anal fistula
R7Mej TIL of a religious cult known as the "Prince Philip Movement", located on the island of Tanna in Vanuatu. It's followers worship Prince Philip and believe that he is a divine being.