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TIL Hugh Hefner owns the letter Y of the hollywood sign

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R5Y9 TIL the Soviet spy drama Seventeen Moments of Spring was so popular that during episode premieres crime rates across the whole country dropped significantly.
8ey4b TIL that Little Jimmy Urine (the frontman of the band Mindless Self Indulgence) voiced Zed and wrote all of the boss music in the video game Lollipop Chainsaw.
vPjgR TIL Tomoaki Hamatsu participated in the show "Susunu! Denpa Shōnen" where he was locked up for 335 days, he had to survive by winning things in the lottery and at the same time he started in a practically empty room and naked
X0G06 TIL about the Dyatlov Pass Incident where 9 experience hikers passed away after their tent had been ripped open FROM THE INSIDE. The bodies were scattered around the campsite in various conditions, some missing eyes or their tongues. The case is still unsolved.
6EGv8 TIL that Operation Cherry Blossoms at Night was a 1945 plan developed by Shirō Ishii to wage biological warfare upon civilian population centers in Southern California in the United States during the final months of World War II, using plague fleas from unit 731.