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TIL that Kurt Vonnegut's grave is in a secret location.

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WnbL TIL of the 71 million dollar word. Due to a hospital not using a professional translator they misinterpreted the word “intoxicado” which led to improper treatment leading to the patient becoming a quadriplegic and winning a lawsuit to the tune of 71 million dollars.
5kpB TIL in 2013, Escape from Tomorrow was covertly filmed on location at Disneyland and Walt Disney World without Disney’s permission or knowledge, keeping their scripts on their iPhones and shooting on handheld video cameras similar to those used by park visitors.
X05rX TIL that the 2012 James Bond film Skyfall is almost wholly responsible for a tremendous increase in the popularity of straight razors.
N74EN TIL the CIA once "kidnapped" a Soviet spacecraft overnight, took it apart, studied it, reassembled it, & sent it back without the Soviets realizing.
repM TIL a woman named Chante Mallard hit a homeless man with her car, sending him through her windshield. She drove home, parked her car in her garage & left him stuck there. He died, so she took the body to a park & set fire to the car. She was caught 4 months later when she talked about it at a party