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TIL in the weeks following the Titanic sinking, over 118,000 people had joined the “just missed it club”, claiming they had missed or canceled their trip at the last moment

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xl7w TIL “Good Will Hunting” was going to be a Kevin Smith film until he declined, saying they needed a good director.
N4vP TIL Mountain Dew was made to be mixed with whiskey
XxXE TIL that in front of the Embassy of Japan, there is a statue of a small girl staring at it, representing the comfort women who passed away having waited for true apology from Japan.
NEyN TIL Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis didn’t talk from 1956 to 1976 & remained estranged until 1987. That’s when Martin’s son was killed in a plane crash. When Martin found out Lewis secretly attended the funeral, he called his old partner and patched things up & remained close until Martin’s 1995 death.
lBNa TIL A fighter jet pilot shot his own plane down by flying into his own bullets.