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TIL Philadelphia Police bombed a Pro-Black movement in 1985, killing 11 people, including 5 children. The only person to go to jail, was the only survivor.

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1armX TIL Soul Asylum’s 1994 music video for "Runaway Train" helped find 25 of the 36 missing children featured in the music video.
loZM5 TIL Rock band Bring Me The Horizon got their name from the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie when Captain Jack Sparrow said, "Now, bring me that horizon."
ANL6B TIL An animated sequel to "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" was released in 1985
DQ7OD TIL An Irish American group invaded Canada in 1866 to try and force the UK to give Ireland independence.
awvmL TIL Albert Anastasia, considered to be one of the deadliest criminals of all time, was sentenced to death for the murder of a longshoreman in 1921. In 1922 he won a retrial on a technicality and went on to become boss of the Gambino Family & Murder Inc. He was responsible for thousands of murders.