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For a moment in Russia, gold falls from the sky.
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TIL the famous "I ❤ NY" logo was drawn in the back of a taxi cab, given to New York for free, and makes New York State close to $30 million per year.
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TIL Aaron Swartz, a tech whiz-kid and political activist, tried to liberate almost 5 million restricted articles and $50,000 worth of text books to the public, but ended up facing $1m and 35 years in jail, which ultimately drove him to hang himself.
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Today I learned there was a Ferris Buehler TV show (1990) and Jennifer Anniston played Gini, Ferris' bossy sister.
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TIL that Hitler had all the copies of the first propaganda film by Leni Riefenstahl destroyed, simply because it showed him talking closely with disgraced Nazi Ernest Röhm. Hitler had Röhm killed in the Night of the Long Knives. A single surviving print was found in England in the 1990s.
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TIL that in 1979, Brenda Spencer shot up an elementary school, killing two and wounding nine other people. When asked why she did it, she replied, "I don't like Mondays..." inspiring the song by the Boomtown Rats song.