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TIL M. Night Shyamalan wrote the 90’s hit “She’s All That”.
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VBg44
TIL about the French astronomer (with the longest name I have ever seen) who twice travelled to India to observe the transit of Venus. He returned to a family that presumed him dead and was fighting over his estate.
X05Mk
TIL that the Miracle of the Sun happened in Portugal in 1917. Three children saw the Virgin Mary on the 13th of each month. On October 13th, around 70,000 people witnessed extraordinary solar phenomena for 10 minutes, followed by reported healings and conversions.
WgWA
TIL that an asthmatic boy died in a severe asthma attack because the school forbid asthma inhalers; while the boy was dying, the inhalers sat in a safe at the principal’s office.
kOm6E
TIL that Samuel L. Jackson’s lightsaber in Revenge of the Sith had BMF etched into the switch.
d8oy9
TIL in 1997 Albanian Pyramid Schemes which made up half of the nation's economy ran out of money causing protests and sparking the Albanian Civil War