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TIL in the early 80s there was a wheat field in downtown NYC

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9YeWm TIL about the Freedom Summer Murders, where 3 Civil Rights workers were abducted and killed by local law enforcement. Despite sufficient evidence, the state of Mississippi refused to prosecute the perpetrators, and some were only convicted of Civil Rights violations and served little time in prison
KYwJ6 Til a girl who survived Asiana plane crash was killed by a SFO firetruck that been dispatched to rescue survivors and extinguish flames from the burning Boeing 777.
4XQGo TIL American Humane - source for "No Animals Were Harmed" disclaimers - were not contractually required to monitor movies until after the release of the 1980 movie "Heaven's Gate". The reports of animal cruelty, including a horse blown up by dynamite, prompted the Screen Actors Guild requirement.
JreB TIL ‘Birdman’ actor Michael Keaton had to change his name because the Screen Actors Guild would not allow him to use his birth name “Michael Douglas”
QLV6 TIL that there is an island off the coast of Brazil that is so greatly infested with venomous snakes (1-5 snakes per square meter) that the Brazilian navy has quarantined it. It is called ‘Snake Island’.