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TIL: After the death of his wife from breast cancer, actor Rick Moranis began an 18-year-long hiatus from acting to raise his children.

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yQYwp TIL the Ajax Lady in "Up in Smoke" ended up an addict living on skid row
Ly59 TIL The 1993 World Trade Center bombing was the result of an FBI sting operation. FBI agents secretly supplied informant Emad Salem with bomb making materials. Despite being assured by the FBI that the real bomb was replaced with a fake, the attack was successfully carried out.
5V749 TIL of Sir Anthony Meyer, a Conservative MP who challenged Margaret Thatcher for the leadership. Dismissed as having no chance by the media, his challenge ultimately brought Thatcher down from power, as it showed how many of her own party had grown tired of her.
4XBmJ TIL of Moses of Crete, who proclaimed himself the Jewish Messiah and told his followers to walk through the sea with him to re-take Palestine. The sea didn't budge, many drowned, and Moses disappeared.
NXxJ6 TIL In “The Silence of the Lambs” (1991), the skull on the movie poster is actually made of naked women – Salvador Dali’s “In Voluptas Mors.”