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TIL President Ford survived two assassination attempts in the same month. On Sept. 5, 1975, Lynette Fromme, a follower of Charles Manson, fired a pistol at the president in a crowd in Sacramento, but Ford was unharmed. On Sept. 22, Sara Jane Moore pulled a revolver on Ford in San Francisco.

JYZXB TIL about the door-in-the-face. An attempt is made to convince the respondent to comply by making a large request that the respondent will most likely turn down. The respondent is then more likely to agree to a second, more reasonable request, than if that same request is made in isolation.
BYpk TIL Numerous people have been killed singing the Frank Sinatra song “My Way” in karaoke bars in the Philippines. The news media has recorded at least half a dozen “My Way Killings” in the last decade, and many bars have removed the song from their playbooks.
bZwa TIL Roald Dahl, author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, wrote the screenplay for the James Bond film, ‘You Only Live Twice.’
oBoMW TIL in 2012 authorities discovered over 1,500 pieces of stolen art valued at 1.3 billion in the Munich apartment of Cornelius Gurlitt. Cornelius never held a job and lived alone surrounded by the art for 40 years. These pieces were to be part of Hitler's Fuhrermuseum.
kOyMg TIL of the “smoosh method”, a way of introducing two chinchillas to each other by placing them both in a small cage they can’t move in so they don’t attack each other