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W7NPY TIL of the Tlatelolco massacre, a student protest that led to hundreds of deaths and thousands of people being injured, after the mexican government had snipers firing at the Mexican Armed Forces to make it appear the protest had turned violent and justify the massacre
N76GM TIL that for the film 'Ray' (2004), Jamie Foxx had to wear eye prosthetics that would make him go blind for up to 12 hours a day. It barely left him any time to sleep because he would practice piano after shooting with the blindfold on. He went on to win the Oscar for best actor for his performance.
6EgEY TIL, Disneyland's Jungle Cruise is now a self sustaining ecosystem and requires very little landscaping
D1NZP TIL Hitler wished Islam had spread throughout Europe rather than Christianity
QJdaE TIL Timothy McVeigh was a witness to the Waco massacre in 1993. Two years later, on the second anniversary of the last day of the Waco siege, McVeigh set off a bomb outside of a government building in Oklahoma, as an act against what he saw as a tyrannical government.