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TIL that The New York Times had Elizabeth Taylor’s obituary ready for so long that the WRITER of the piece died 6 years before her.

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WRe8 TIL that over 200 stolen German cars have been found in the possession of friends and family of the President of Tajikistan. Tajik officials refuse to address this fact.
KMnJ TIL Captain America is a first generation Irish immigrant
xAl5 TIL that General Motors and other companies would buy street cars and trains and scrap them to decrease public transportation competition
vQD8 TIL Arnold Schwarzenegger saved a drowning man’s life in 2004 by swimming out 100 yards and bringing him back to shore
X0a6P TIL the original Holes screenplay by Donnie Darko writer Richard Kelly was a dystopian, R-rated thriller set in a post-nuclear world. It had no Kissin’ Kate or yellow-spotted lizards, and The Warden was a male totalitarian figure. Disney rejected it for being too dark and political.