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TIL a Finnish tax auditor died at his desk at work and no one noticed for two days. “People thought he wanted to work in peace and no one disturbed him.”

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6E4jX TIL Yugoslav people still exist. Most of them were of mixed descent, being unable to identify as part of any specific ethnicity. Thus they chose to identify as “Yugoslavs”, and stuck with it.
7997 TIL the only actor who wasn’t physically wiped out from filming in the demanding Jaeger cockpit harnesses in “Pacific Rim” was Rinko Kikuchi, the female Jaeger pilot. Director Guillermo del Toro asked for her secret and she replied “I think of gummi bears and flowers.”
rNWd4 TIL that as a 26 yo law student, Michael Avenatti played a large role in a scheme to media-shame Pepsi into giving away a Harrier jet. He was described as someone who "steps over the line as a human being" by one co-conspirator.
WDOL TIL Keanu Reeves was to play the role of Spike Spiegel in a live-action Cowboy Bebop movie. Initial plans were made in 2008-2009 and the director Watanabe stated in 2014 that the movie had faced a lot of “Hollywood problems”
yQOol TIL of the "Poe Toaster". A shadowy figure dressed in black who for over 7 decades toasted Edgar Alan Poe on his birthday at his grave with cognac and three roses