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TIL there is a dog suicide bridge in Scotland

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rdb4 TIL that when Marilyn Manson was asked what he would say to the students of Columbine, he replied, “I wouldn’t say a single word to them; I would listen to what they have to say, and that’s what no one did.”
jROX TIL In 1969, the Woodstock concert was filmed for a documentary by a group of recent graduates from the NYU film school. A 26-year-old assistant director watched the show from a raised platform, never able to get away for food or to use the bathroom for three days. He was Martin Scorcese.
P1bG TIL that “Hello” only came about in the 19th centuary and became popular chiefly due to the word being easy to hear on early telephones.
GYgxE TIL that in "Oblomov", the second novel by Russian writer Ivan Goncharov, it takes the protagonist the first 50 pages, to get up from bed, and move to a chair.
9YPXG TIL that at the Hoover dam construction the first worker death was that of J. G. Tierney and the last death was that of his son Patrick Tierney which came 14 years after the death of his father