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TIL during the filming of “Friday the 13th” (1980), the film was shot over multiple locations in New Jersey in the summer of ‘79, one of them being a small town called Blairstown. It turned out that Lou Reed lived next door to the set, and he would sometimes visit & perform on the set of the film.

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woVa6 TIL of the McCarthy Massacre, when Louis Hastings intended to cut off the isolated village of McCarthy, Alaska, kill all the residents, dump the bodies on a glacier and destroy a part of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline. He killed six of the 22 residents before being being arrested.
VM7kZ TIL participation in high school sports has been dropping in the last decade. Yet, participation in school sports among wealthy students is higher than ever
7rXOr TIL that, in the Australian state of Queensland, the government places trivia questions periodically to keep drivers awake and aware.
Y7X9P TIL about the short stories of African American writer Diane Oliver who died in 1966 in a motorcycle accident at the age of 22
K4g6 TIL when Seal Team Six was founded, there were only two other Seal teams. Richard Marcinko purportedly named the unit SEAL Team Six in order to confuse other nations, specifically the Soviet Union, into believing that the United States had at least three other SEAL teams that they were unaware of.