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TIL after Officials in Richmond, California, learned that 70 percent of the city’s murders and firearms assaults were directly linked to 17 people, they decided to pay them to behave. With individual coaching, health care coverage and a monthly stipend, murders decreased from 62 to only 11 last year

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6aMJ TIL that Nickleback’s manager instructed Jimmy Kimmel Live director Bobcat Goldwait not to shoot Chad Kroeger from profile because of his big nose. Goldwait waited until there were 10 seconds left in the band’s live performance, then ordered all cameras to shoot Kroeger’s nose.
nW7p7 TIL The movie Crossfire (1947) was based on the book The Brick Foxhole (1945). The book focused on homophobia but the film was changed to focus on anti-semitism because the Hays Code prohibited homosexual content.
jJrR TIL that during the Aurora movie theater shooting, a man left his girlfriend and two small children in the theater, ran to his car, and drove away. He later proposed to his girlfriend at the hospital. She said yes.
yVZYw TIL that ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti was the first person to ever wear a Star Trek uniform while in outer space. In 2015, she tweeted a pic of herself on the ISS wearing Captain Janeway’s uniform from Star Trek Voyager.
ADOka TIL that Kal Penn, the comedian that played "Kumar" in the movie "Harold and Kumar go to White Castle" became the Associate Director in the White House Office of Public Engagement in 2009.