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X0eYX TIL in 2006 a Romanian man, Florin Fodor, was charged for trying to illegally immigrate to Canada multiple times. He was first deported from Canada in 2000, and then in 2006 he attempted to enter again by sailing from Greenland to Nunavut in a 20 foot fiberglass boat.
4kyNb TIL that Samuel L. Jackson was expelled from Morehouse College after he and other students held the Board of Trustees hostage, including Martin Luther King, Jr.'s father. They demanded changes to the curriculum and more black people on the governing board.
ZpKka TIL Larry Bird Once Played A Game Mostly With His Left Hand Because He Wanted to Save His Right for the Next Game Against the Lakers.
j65pN TIL the ending of “The Shawshank Redemption” barely made “final cut” as executives preferred the “bus scene” for the ending. Frank Darabont was able to keep in film, agreeing to roll the end credits during, and due to test audiences approval. It also was the first scene to be shot during filming.
WVDN TIL Lou Pearlman, who signed N'Sync, The Backstreet Boys, and other boy bands in the 90’s would choose one boy from each band to molest as a condition of signing them. A former employee is quoted as saying “There was one guy in every band — one sacrifice … who takes it for Lou.”