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TIL the word "paparazzi" originated from a character name in the 1960 Italian film "La Dolce Vita."

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ZpyNa TIL in 1976 Libya demanded neighboring Tunisia cease deployment of a massive military vehicle near it's border or risk escalation. The offensive military vehicle was a Jawa Sandcrawler being built on the set of a movie.
Oo8kX One night in 1987, a Canadian man named Kenneth Parks drove for 14 miles from his house to his in-laws. He then broke in and made his way upstairs, bludgeoning his mother-in-law with a crowbar that he’d gotten from the boot of his car before stabbing her repeatedly to death. He then proceeded to choke and stab his father-in-law, who miraculously survived. Parks then drove himself to the police station and turned himself in. It sounds like a fairly cut and dry murder case, but after going to trial, Kenneth Parks walked free. Thanks to a combination of a lack of motive, his consistent version of events, and data gathered from EEG readings, no charges were pressed against him because all evidence pointed to the unlikely and bewildering truth that Parks had been sleepwalking. It remains one of the most remarkable cases of homicidal sleepwalking in history.
QOJd TIL of “The Mother Dough.” The oldest in the USA can be found at the Boudin Bakery in San Francisco. Over 400 loaves of bread a day are made from a living yeast strain over 160 years old. The yeast/dough mixture doubles in size every day.
9wPKr TIL that not only Danny Trejo and Robert Rodriguez are second cousins, but that they were unaware of their relationship until they started shooting Desperado.
n1nd TIL the Romans had a December holiday of merrymaking and gift-giving from 500 BC.