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TIL that in 1900, the anarchist Marius Jacob organized a band of thieves with three rules: no killing, except to preserve life or freedom, steal only from social parasites, and invest a percentage of the stolen money into the anarchist cause.

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BrQLk TIL Czar Nicholas II actually wanted to meet with protesters and negotiate solutions, but his ministers rejected that idea and sent in soldiers to shoot at the protesters, triggering the 1905 revolution.
d8ZvK TIL that the movie Apocalypse Now has the most movie mistakes of all time, as documented by viewers (558 mistakes). Followed by The Birds (546 mistakes) and Wizard of Oz (423 mistakes). The single "Best Mistake" was from Star Wars (1977) where a storm trooper hits his head on a door frame.
OGVY1 TIL in 1996 Björk had a stalker who mailed her a letter bomb rigged with sulfuric acid, before filming his own suicide by shotgun. Police found the tape and intercepted the package before it arrived.
9DmM TIL Japan Airlines operates an exhibition of the 1985 plane crash, displaying passengers’ farewell notes, their personal belongings and 41 pieces of wreckage, as a safety lesson for its employees.
8xZ4 TIL that in 1956, for a bet, while drunk, Thomas Fitzpatrick stole a small plane from New Jersey and then landed it perfectly on a narrow Manhattan street in front of the bar he had been drinking at. Then, two years later, he did it again after a man didn’t believe he had done it the first time.