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TIL Vince Coleman, a railway dispatcher, sacrificed his life in order to warn an incoming train of an imminent explosion. His telegraph said "Hold up the train. Ammunition ship afire in harbor making for Pier 6 and will explode. Guess this will be my last message. Good-bye boys." He saved 300 lives.

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jw1N TIL Oscar Winners in the past twenty years have thanked Harvey Weinstein 5 times more than God.
VBMBk TIL Sony Pictures Entertainment admitted that a highly positive review written by a critic named David Manning to the 2000 American epic historical war film The Patriot, was a product of the studio’s advertising department, as the reviewer never existed.
QJy0M TIL that when 'A Charlie Brown Christmas' was screened for CBS execs, they told the creators “We’ll play it once and that will be all. Good try.” A drunk animator stood up in the back of the room and shouted 'It's going to run for a hundred years.' It was recently shown for the 52nd year in a row.
05eR TIL - Ford’s invention of the moving assembly line allowed cars to be created so quickly that “Japan Black” was the only paint that could dry fast enough to keep up, thus his famous quote, “Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black”.
9Y9gB TIL of "MileHighClub" tours, which chartered flights with voyeur cams from Florida for people who wanted to have “sex in the sky”. The company suspended operations after an elderly couple booked the “Quickie” flight & were killed trying to hijack the plane to Cuba, crashing it into the sea