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TIL that Puritans started a “War on Christmas” in the 17th Century, considering it hedonistic and heretical.

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5v1P TIL During the first meeting between Lecter and Starling, Anthony Hopkins’s mocking of Jodie Foster’s southern accent was improvised on the spot. Foster’s horrified reaction was genuine; she felt personally attacked. She later thanked Hopkins for generating such an honest reaction.
KvD9 TIL that Marilyn Manson had a designated driver take a girl home from a house party. She got home, got in her own vehicle, and was killed on her way back to the party.
v1Avr TIL of Francis Crowley, whose crime spree lasted nearly three months, ending in a two-hour shootout. In prison he was known to stuff his uniform down the toilet, set fire to his bed, and craft homemade weapons. He was executed in the electric chair, at the age of 19.
e0QlL TIL that on the 3 of September 1967 Swedish traffic switched from the left to the right side of the road. The event is known as "Dagen H" (Swedish for H Day), H standing for Högertrafikomläggningen, or the Right-Hand Traffic Diversion.
88kK TIL that there are enough diamonds found under the Popigai asteroid crater in Russia to supply the world diamond market for 3,000 years.