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TIL Marvel’s ‘The Avengers’ movie caused shawarma sales to SKYROCKET nationwide

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JYdY8 TIL There is a conspiracy theory, in Pakistan, that Malala Yousafzai was a spy for the US/CIA and they, along with her father, orchestrated the attempted murder. Bonus fact, supposedly Robert de Niro was the shooter and disguised as an Uzbek Homeopathic doctor.
WZ7B TIL Petrichor is the name given to that earthy smell that accompanies rainfall.
6Eb0Y TIL that in 2015, Martin Scorsese directed a 16-minute short film called “The Audition” that served as an advertisement for a Chinese casino. It stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro, with a cameo appearance from Brad Pitt. The budget was $70 million.
J1v0j TIL that in Christian tradition, Zacchaeus, the short guy who climbed a sycamore tree to see Jesus, and who Christian kids usually call a "wee little man", later became the first Bishop of Caesarea
PJgn TIL that in 1994 a Boy Scout named David Hahn attempted to make a neutron “gun,” and dangerously irradiated himself and his neighborhood in the process until his arrest.