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TIL that in order to receive compensation from the original September 11th Victim Compensation Fund, the recipients had to agree not to sue the airlines whose planes were hijacked in the attacks.

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4X6kw TIL of the "Secret Museum" of erotic Pompeian artwork. Since these objects were considered pornographic in the nineteenth century, they were never fully and permanently revealed to the public until 2000.
JQj4 TIL Guillermo Del Toro lost his notebook in the back of a London cab which contained most of the ideas for pans labyrinth. Cab driver returns the book as him Del Toro discussed comic books and had told the driver what hotel he was staying in. He received a $900 reward for its return.
pYdLA TIL that HM Prison Shepton Mallet (UK) was used by the American military 1942 to 1945. At the end of 1944 there were 768 soldiers imprisoned. 18 were executed at the prison: sixteen were hanged and two were shot by a firing squad. 10 of the 18 men executed there were black and three were Hispanic.
4k1ob TIL Alec Guinness negotiated an upfront salary of $300,000 and 2.25% of the backend grosses to appear as Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars (1977). Overall, the deal earned him an estimated $95 million, for roughly 20 minutes of screen time, by the time of his death in 2000 at 86.
rRvvd TIL that Loreta Janeta Velazquez was a Cuban-American woman who masqueraded as a male Confederate soldier during the Civil War. She was in essence a 19th century Mulan.