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TIL that Disney filming crews push Lemmings down the cliff

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y9nM TIL Salem Village that we know from the Witch Trials was renamed Danvers, MA and the current Salem was then known as Salem Town.
YwGG TIL that Oceanographer Bob Ballard found the Titanic just days after completing a secret mission for the Navy. The secret mission’s cover-story: finding the Titanic.
kOgj5 TIL Boston police sent letters to 3,800 people wanted on charges ranging from shoplifting to drug dealing and invited them to be extras for a movie. 54 showed up, were met by officers posing as employees of a fictitious production company & escorted onto buses which took them to police headquarters
Memb0 TIL Little River, CA, is the lowest-income community in the USA - a 2013-2017 study found that it had a median annual household income of $3,194.
gMLnX TIL - "Peace of Westphalia", signed on 24th October 1648, was the first international congress atended by almost all European leaders, ending a 30 and 80 y/o war in former Europe, beginning of the new peace order upheld until today.