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TIL: Dexter Holland of The Offspring wrote their hit "Gone Away" after his girlfriend was killed in a car accident

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kJJgd TIL The iconic Pulp Fiction adrenaline scene was filmed in reverse.
mx9rM TIL In WW1 German saboteurs blew up munitions stored near NYC before the US entered the war. The ensuing blast damaged the Statue of Liberty.
MeWMa TIL in 2013 a Nike ad featuring Oscar Pistorius and the slogan "I am the bullet in the chamber" was pulled from Pistorius' site after he was charged with murder for fatally shooting his girlfriend.
KON7Q TIL Georges Charpak was awarded the 1992 Nobel Prize in Physics for his invention and development of particle detectors. In 1944 he was deported to the Nazi concentration camp at Dachau, where he remained until the camp was liberated in 1945
OoBeY TIL that the word with the most meanings in English is the verb 'set', with 430 senses listed in the Second Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, published in 1989. The word commands the longest entry in the dictionary at 60,000 words, or 326,000 characters.