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TIL Tupac shot two cops, and had all the charges dropped on account of the cops drunkenly pointing a stolen gun at pedestrians

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wLJ6M TIL of Sarah Jones, a camera assistant who was killed in a train accident on set of Midnight Rider, due to unsafe decisions made by the director and producer. Later a movement emerged, and movie crews from around the world put her name on slates, as a tribute and a pledge to always stay safe on set
l7Nwr TIL that "Macgyver" started off as "Hourglass," a show that was to take place in real time over an hour. However, since each episode was supposed to stand by itself, its creator thought that they couldn't make it work as a series. The same concept was later used to make "24."
EKX0 TIL Bobby Fischer developed a variant of chess where the starting positions were randomized because he thought too many top level players were simply memorizing opening positions
MeVQ0 TIL that actor Bob Odenkirk in Better Call Saul was fully trained as a Cinnabon employee to prepare for his role, and even refused a hand double - insisting on using his own hands in the bun-preparing montages
GYgkE TIL that deaf people who speak ASL (???????? Sign Language) are unable to understand those who speak BANZSL (???????? + ???????? + ????????). There is only a 31% overlap between the two languages, meaning that even though their respective countries speak English, their deaf communities are unable to communicate.