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TIL During the 2000 election, the Gore campaign received an anonymous package containing debate prep materials from the Bush campaign and they called the FBI in response.

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g9bW TIL John Lennon’s son Julian Lennon had to buy back his father’s letters written to him and other of John’s belongings in an auction that Yoko Ono did after John’s death. Julian basically used his dad’s money to buy his dad’s belongings.
4Xakb TIL there was a planned military coup at the end of the US Revolutionary War
ErAd TIL Chris Evans starred in a Korean film called Snowpiercer. Harvey Weinstein acquired the US release rights but refused unless major edits were made. Director Bong Joon-ho stood by his version and with the help of American fans was able to release his uncut version, resulting in a box-office hit.
Or4g TIL The show Sesame Street will be adding a new muppet called Julia who has autism. This is the first new character on Sesame Street in over a decade and the first muppet with a mental disorder.
X0pwr TIL: In 2020, an explosion at a chemical facility in Spain killed 3 people, however, one of them, Sergio Millán was 2 kilometers away and not a worker, when he was struck by a steel plate from the explosion weighing 800kg with a security camera catching the plate traveling 2km to reach him.