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TIL Ed O'Neill has a black belt in Brazilian jujitsu.

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d89KZ TIL of The Great Disappointment: a reaction to the failure of a preacher's proclamation that Jesus would return to Earth on October 22, 1844. When nothing happened, many groups reacted with violence, including a group in Toronto being tarred and feathered.
mRRO TIL Ernest Hemingway invented a cocktail: Absinthe and Champagne or, “Death in the Afternoon.”
wlLJ TIL that in the 1957 film “12 Angry Men” the focal length of the lenses in the cameras used were gradually increased to create a feeling of claustrophobia.
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9Y1jX TIL In 1739, Benjamin Franklin was pivotal in the commencement of American paper currency and anti-counterfeit measures. He even went as far as intentionally misspelling words and using leaf imprints to fool counterfeiters.