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TIL William Huntington Russell co-founder of the secretive Skull and Bones fatally ruptured a blood vessel protecting some birds from rocks thrown by some boys.

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d5OE TIL the “American Psycho” movie studio wanted Leonardo DiCaprio for the Bateman role and were willing to quadruple the budget to accommodate DiCaprio’s $21 mil quote. Meanwhile, Christian Bale turned down all roles and auditions for 9 months, confident DiCaprio would eventually decline the part.
VMoOB TIL, Bayer sold HIV-contaminated blood products to haemophiliacs, thousands of whom later died of AIDS.
PbEE TIL the first man to swim the length of Great Britain grew a beard to stop jellyfish stinging his face
6yW7 TIL in 1982 Vincent Chin was beaten to death in a Detroit suburb. The perpetrators were Chrysler plant superintendent Ronald Ebens and his stepson, Michael Nitz. The attack was motivated by U.S. auto manufacturing jobs being lost to Japan, although Chin was Chinese. They served no jail time.
4kaZw TIL that when Kissinger publicly threatened "countermeasures" in a press conference, during the Oil Crisis, if the OAPEC embargo was not lifted, the Saudis responded with threatening further oil cuts and to burn their oil fields if the US military invaded.