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TIL when Sidney Poitier gets slapped in 'In the Heat of Night' (1967) and he slaps a white man in return, he had it written into his contract that the movie would would only show the version where he slaps the man back or else he wouldn't take the role.

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4XORN TIL that critics of the Golden Rule have devised the so-called Platinum Rule, which states "Do unto others as they would have you do unto them, not as you would have them do unto you."
ZDd4 TIL to justify the > $1 trillion spent on counter terrorism since 9/11, homeland security would have had to prevent more than 4 dozen deaths and $400 million dollars of damage from terrorist attacks in the US per day… NOT counting the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
BgO1D TIL that French author Maurice Leblanc, in response either to a copyright complaint or a polite request from Arthur Conan Doyle, created the character "Herlock Sholmès."
wLgWJ TIL There was an influx of Western tourists to Boracay after German writer Jens Peter called it "paradise on Earth" in his 1978 book. In the 1980s, the island became popular as a budget destination for backpackers. By the 1990s, Boracay's beaches were being acclaimed as the best in the world
awVDo TIL that an Arizona Senator candidate got away with murdering his Mom & Sister. Claims it was self defense, yet the bodies of his mom and sister were found in their rooms to have died of being shot in there sleep. He claims he killed them in his room after his mother shot at him.