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TIL the New York Times has given only one “poor” rating to a restaurant: Guy Fieri’s American Kitchen and Bar in Times Square

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dvo8 TIL in 1999 the family of MLK filed a wrongful death suit claiming James Earl Ray was innocent and a government conspiracy assassinated King. The jury came out in agreement with the King family, finding that there was a conspiracy.
bD99 TIL OJ Simpson was nearly cast as the Terminator, but the studio was afraid that no one would buy him as a remorseless killer.
JbY4 TIL black pepper is actually a fruit
W9AB TIL that there’s a rare, discontinued kind of firearm (pistols, rifles) that shoots tiny ROCKETS instead of bullets!
r6ew TIL of the acting agency “Amputees in Action,” which provides amputee actors to simulate gore and missing limbs in war movies like Saving Private Ryan.