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TIL that William Shatner starred in a horror film written entirely in the international constructed language Esperanto

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WkkNd TIL of joseph lozito, the man that stopped a stabbing-spree, never got acknowledged by the police as the man who stopped him. He fought the killer whilst being stabbed with a giant knife in the arm, the chest and in the head.
P1nXe TIL that the largest earthquake in history was in Valdivia, Chile with a magnitude of 9.5 and a fault line of over 1000 miles. A magnitude 10 quake or higher is impossible because the fault line would have to encircle the earth, and no fault line is that long.
8aVPa TIL that in Scarface (1983) The prop firearms were equipped with electronic synchronizing devices so that they would only fire when the camera shutter was open. The result was that the guns' muzzle flashes are much more visible and consistent than in most movies
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GYdXj TIL Insurance companies invented the “Fire Brigade” it was only later the government saw the need for the service to be available to everyone that they created the government run Fire Department around the American Civil War era.