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TIL that during the French Revolution more than 4,000,000 volumes were burnt, of which 25,000 were medieval manuscripts

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9eV6 TIL Dan Aykroyd co-founded the House of Blues, and did it with the mission to promote African-American cultural contributions of blues music and folk art.
j6GRj TIL of the 2022 Caribbean diving disaster where a group of five divers working for the Paria Fuel Trading Company were sucked into a pipeline from a hyperbaric chamber. One diver managed to crawl to safety, but the other four were left to die, with no attempt being made to rescue them
ZplQG TIL that the opening scene of Zoolander, featuring the awards ceremony, was filmed during commercial breaks at the actual 2000 VH1/Vogue Fashion Awards.
xVJPb TIL about Archie "The Greek" Karas, a gambler who turned $50 into $40M and lost it all in a year
jaJN TIL TV mystery series ‘Columbo’ was so popular in Romania that when the show was cancelled the Romanian gov’t feared riots, so they had the US State Dept. ask Peter Falk to record a video message to the Romanian people, which he did by reading it phonetically into the camera