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TIL the Banana Stand on Arrested Development was based on a real business run by the creator of the show Mitch Hurwitz

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Rj74 TIL that a steamboat that sank in 1856 was excavated in 1988 under 45 feet of dirt in a field on a farm. Many artifacts were recovered and preserved so well that some of the food was still edible.
NXBJN TIL about the "My Way Killings" a social phenomenon in the Philippines that describes a string of 12 unrelated murders between 2002-2012 all related to Frank Sinatra's song My Way.
a8Wm9 TIL about "Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines", a Rwandan radio station nicknamed "Radio Genocide" because of its hateful propaganda against Tutsis that fueled the Rwandan Genocide
aDNy TIL that a Russian family of 6 lived alone in the harsh forests of the taiga for forty years before being discovered in 1978. One family member is still living out there, a region deemed uninhabitable by some of the fiercest and best equipped animals for surviving, yet this one girl manages.
0dwGj TIL In Baby Driver (2017), a security guard was played by Joe Loya, an ex-convict that got jailed for robbing 30 to 40 banks, who worked on the movie as a technical adviser. He also worked closely on the script with director Edgar Wright.