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TIL there is a statue of a blue horse with glowing laser eyes in front of the Denver International Airport nicknamed bluecifer. This statue killed his creator Luis Jiménez when a section fell on him.

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mx7PR TIL while fighting in WWII, Max Spencer Adler was shot out of the sky and imprisoned by the Nazi’s. After surviving and returning home, he would go on to create the store we now know as Spencer’s (Gifts).
ak7Z TIL that pioneer of astrogeology and founder of planetary science, Eugene Shoemaker, was a candidate for an Apollo moon mission but ruled out due to illness. After his death in 1997, he became the first person laid to rest on another celestial body, and the only human buried on the moon.
GY47j TIL Till Lindemann, lead singer of Rammstein, wanted a light put in his mouth for visual effects. His bandmate suggested he use a flesh colored wire and run it into his mouth from the outside. Lindemann refused, opting to have a surgical incision in his left cheek to directly feed it into his mouth
1axoD TIL, acclaimed novelist Kurt Vonnegut loved the TV show Cheers, even claiming, "I'd rather have written 'Cheers' than anything I've written" (#9 on the list)
LQyp9 TIL that a hip writer, Jeremiah Terminator LeRoy, hailed as a literary genius for his semi-autobiographical works about his tragically abusive childhood, amassed a huge cult following as well as close friendships with celebrities like Madonna, never actually existed and was completely made up.