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TIL Phil Collins is a huge Alamo relic collector and historian.

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rN0Zw TIL In 1877 Porter Rockwell and Wild Bill Hickman were indicted for the Aiken massacre (five Californian travelers lynched on Brigham Young’s orders)
kOVNB TIL the medical term STAT is from the Latin word statum, meaning ‘immediately’
4XgAN TIL Antony Hopkins composed a waltz in 1964 that was only released years later. The famous actor was afraid that nobody would like it and therefore never got to hear it being played up until 2011 thanks to André Rieu - a Dutch violinist who got sent the music sheets by Hopkins' wife.
WkdGY TIL Pixar film Coco got passed China’s censors with 0 cuts. Censors were ready to ban it entirely for the presence of ghosts, however, the when viewed by the committee they were moved to tears and allowed to be released in full
75WM TIL the fastest man made object that’s ever moved was an iron manhole cover, which traveled at five times the earth’s escape velocity at 0.02% the speed of light