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TIL The same actor (John Hurt) did the “chestburster” scene in Alien and returned 8 years later to do it in Spaceballs

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X0mQE TIL that the early 1910s/1920s Winnipeg Falcons hockey team was almost entirely made up of Icelandic-Canadians who had been excluded from playing elsewhere because of their immigrant origins. They went on become the 1920 Canadian champs and represent Canada in the 1920 Olympics, where they won gold.
6N9J TIL in 1960, a Retired Postal Worker stalked JFK with the intent of assassinating him. On Dec. 11, he was prepared to ram Kennedy with a dynamite-laden 1950 Buick, but changed his mind at the last minute when he decided he didn’t want to hurt Jackie and her children.
Y76nZ TIL that Clifford Johnson, the most severely burned survivor of 1942's horrific Cocoanut Grove nightclub fire in Boston, underwent several hundred operations. He married his nurse and returned home to Missouri. Years later, he burned to death in a fiery automobile crash.
8a90V TIL that despite the name, the New York Times Best Seller list does not simply compile which books have sold the most, but is a combination sales figures, other data, and internal guidelines. Exactly how the list is determined is a trade secret.
X01lR TIL: Dumbbells are named after silenced[dumb] bell towers that were used to practice ringing the heavy bells