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TIL in 1992, a Lawyer and a Judge were looking for files on a former prisoner in a police station near Paraguay. Instead, they stumbled upon archives documenting an international conspiracy involving the torture, murder, and imprisonment of 480,000 people, now known as the Archives of Terror.

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erdk TIL that since the movie “Beasts of No Nation” was released online the same time it was theatrically, AMC, Regal, Carmike, and Cinemark completely boycotted the movie, effectively downgrading the movie to a limited-release movie with a box office return of $90,777.
Nb76 TIL that there is an island town in Michigan that has banned motor vehicles except for snowmobiles and emergency vehicles. In the summer it’s a tourist attraction, but in the winter it has a population of 500 and is unreachable without a plane until the ice bridge forms.
jxgQ TIL in 1978, a landing gear indicator light malfunctioned on a passenger jet approaching Portland, OR. In a holding pattern, the crew spent over an hour inspecting the issue until the jet ran out of fuel and crashed, killing 10 people. The landing gear had actually been down all along.
m11DR TIL about the Elephantine Colossus: A 200-foot-tall elephant-shaped hotel that was built on Coney Island in 1885, that housed a concert hall, museum, observatory, and more. It later became a brothel but burnt down on 27th September 1896 following a mysterious incident.