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TIL Former Luftwaffe Pilot and President of W. Germany Walter Scheel had a hit music single, selling over 300,000 copies.

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Oo4l6 TIL Matthew Wood, the sound director for the Star Wars sequel trilogy, decided to stop using the iconic Wilhelm Scream, made famous in the original trilogy, and introduced a different iconic scream that has been used in films but kept a secret.
QJx1L TIL Clyde Barrow of crime-duo Bonnie & Clyde was sentenced to a 14 year prison-sentence for auto theft in 1930. Two years into his sentence he decided to chop off two of his toes in order to get out of doing hard labor. Unbeknownst to him, he would be paroled six days later.
aw1BJ TIL that there's a Japanese version of Christianity that claims Jesus escaped crucifixion by switching places with his twin brother and settled down to raise a family in the remote village of Shingō
R5e64 TIL Non-fatal strangulation is an important risk factor for homicide of women. For women, it was reported in 10% of abused controls, 45% of attempted homicides and 43% of homicides.
xrXB TIL in 2014, Fox News plagiarized BioShock Infinite’s logo in a segment on immigration titled “Defending the Homeland,” seemingly unaware of the game’s critical exploration of xenophobia.