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TIL Rupert Murdoch, acting CEO of Fox News, was “not a fit person to exercise the stewardship of a major international company” after an investigation that his companies regularly hacked the phones of celebrities, royalty, and public citizens.

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jNXNN TIL That the director of The Shawshank Redemption bought the script from Stephen King for just $5,000 and could have sold it for $3 million after working on it for just 8 weeks to turn it into a movie script. Even though he was a first-time director, he refused and directed the movie himself.
rRaZW TIL that 9/11, which caused all US planes to be grounded for 3 days, was used by Climate scientists to study the affect that contrails have on the environment.
a84Zo TIL about Bob Fitzsimmons, boxing's first three-division world champion. He is the first middleweight champion to win the heavyweight title and has the Guinness world record for being the 'lightest' heavyweight champion, weighing in at 165lbs when he won the title.
kJJod TIL that Napster issued a cease and desist order to the band The Offspring to stop them selling bootleg merchandise imprinted with the Napster logo
x6aXD TIL that on 15th August 1939, two weeks before the outbreak of Ww2, the luftwaffe lost 13 Ju-87 Stuka in a minute. The incident is know as "Nuehammer Stuka Disaster".