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TIL That “Father Gabriel” from TWD was arrested last year for a DUI, pot possession and doing 107mph

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rkG1 TIL that Iron Sky (the film about Moon Nazis) made over half of its box office gross in Germany
rRxO0 TIL in 1911, physicist George de Hevesy suspected his landlady was bulking up his meals with leftovers; he proved it by sprinkling radioactive material over his dinner and detecting it in the next day’s portion
J1648 TIL tilefish were a very popular food in the US during the late 1800s. It was discovered by a sea captain and his crew who found it to be very tasty. Its popularity decreased after all tilefish were killed due to getting trapped in cold water. It took decades for tilefish to be caught again.
5Vr8r TIL that the Library of Alexandria was not burned once and cataclysmically destroyed, but instead declined gradually over the course of several centuries.
7rygL TIL of Fang Zheng, whose legs were run over by a tank during the Tiananmen Square Massacre in 1989 while he was getting a fainted female student to safety. She refused to testify for him during the investigations and she would later claim that she was not with him during the incident.