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TIL that Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd dusted off their Ghostbusters costumes to visit a terminally ill child who was a fan of the film and wanted to meet them.

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5LLB TIL Pedro Lascuráin (34th president of Mexico) holds the record for the shortest presidency in the world. He was in office for only 45 minutes.
nWGQY TIL Macy’s canceled its Thanksgiving Day Parade from 1942-1944 during WWII, donating its giant balloon animals for the war effort to make 650 pounds of valuable rubber for the military.
kO9dg TIL the story of Eric Betzig, who conceived the idea for the world's first super-resolution microscope while unemployed after quitting his job at Bell Labs due to being frustrated with the scientific community. He built this microscope in his friend's lounge room, and went on to win the Nobel prize.
9bEm TIL in WW2, Nazis rigged skewed-hanging-pictures with explosives in buildings that would be prime candidates for Allies to set up a command post from. When Ally officers would set up a command post, they tended to straighten the pictures, triggering these “anti-officer crooked picture bombs”
M7g7K TIL "Don't Mess With Texas" started as a slogan for an anti littering campaign