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TIL that Blockbuster is still around in Alaska (and other areas where high-speed Internet is expensive or unavailable.) The stores are privately-owned, but keep the Blockbuster name. Alaska is home to ¼ of the nation’s surviving Blockbusters.

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0wgpR TIL that stuck inside on a rainy day in 1816, writers Mary Shelley, Lord Byron, and John Polidori challenged each other to a ghost writing contest. These stories later turned into Frankenstein (Shelley) and The Vampyre (Polidori), the latter of which inspired Bram Stoker's Dracula
R5eg8 TIL David Busst suffered a leg injury in 1996 so severe that Manchester United goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel vomited on the pitch and the match was delayed while blood was cleaned from the grass.
dDDw8 TIL that in 2013 snipers opened fire on the Metcalf Power Substation in San Jose, California. In just under 10 minutes, they disabled 17 transformers and caused $15m in damages. The attackers are still unknown and the motive is still unknown.
x6pm5 TIL Millvina Dean was the last and youngest survivor of the Titanic. She was just over 2 months old when the Titanic sank on April 14, 1912. Dean credits her father for her survival. She was one of 706 people — mostly women and children — who survived. Her father was among the 1,517 who died.
e0mdL TIL after the failure of the 1986 film "Howard the Duck", George Lucas sold some of his assets to recoup the budget, including a computer-animated company to Steve Jobs. That company would go on to become Pixar.