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TIL that people seeing the movie version of “Clue” in theaters didn’t know which of the three endings they were going to see when they went into the movie. Eventually, theaters began advertising which ending the movie would have so people could see the endings they hadn’t already seen.

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78b8M TIL In the late 1930's, several Jewish Mafia groups disrupted the influence of pro-Nazi groups in the US, like the German-American Bund, by beating up several of its members at various rallies. A NY state judge tacitly approved these attacks, on the condition that no one was killed.
6Ye7 TIL that the 1990 film Total Recall had a planned sequel where Arnold became a policeman and solved crimes before they happened with help from clairvoyant Martians. It was never filmed. Instead, the script was adapted into the 2002 film, Minority Report.
Eom0 TIL that in 1921 a group of whites burnt the wealthiest black community, in the United States, known as “black wall street”, to ground. Firebombs were dropped from airplanes and hundreds were killed. This massacre was not acknowledged in state history records until 1996.
WZn4 TIL when spelling out the Javanese alphabet it forms a poem, translated: “There (were) two messengers. (They) had animosity (among each other). (They were) equally powerful (in fight). Here are the corpses.”
W74ON TIL about Operation Snow White, a criminal conspiracy by the Church of Scientology during the 1970s to purge unfavorable records about Scientology and its founder, L. Ron Hubbard. It included a infiltrations and thefts from 136 government agencies, foreign embassies and consulates.