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TIL the 1993 film Philadelphia, the story of a man who was discriminated against due to having AIDS, was itself subject of a lawsuit. The family of the late Geoffrey Bowers sued, claiming that the film heavily borrowed from the story of his own lawsuit without giving him compensation or credit.

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X019P TIL of the Schön scandal, concerning physicist Jan Hendrik Schön, who rose to prominence after a series of breakthroughs with semiconductors that made him in contention for the Nobel prize. It was later discovered that all his research was completely fraudulent.
gro7y TIL that the third best selling album of all time, ahead of Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon, is the soundtrack for 1992 film The Bodyguard
WLN TIL American school buses are yellow because you see yellow faster than any other colour, 1.24 times faster than red in fact.
X0PkQ TIL John Quincy Adams escaped unscathed from the first fatal train accident in recorded US history. Two died & 21 were injured, including Cornelius Vanderbilt, who broke a leg.
Bd6L TIL 58 year old General (retired) Stanley A. McChrystal runs 7-8 miles a day, eats 1 meal a day, and sleeps just 4 hours a night.