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TIL that many films/TV shows, including Gremlins, Desperate Housewives, The Munsters, Beethoven, Deep Impact, and Buffy The Vampire Slayer, as well as music videos by The Offspring and P. Diddy, were all filmed at the same backlot street set at Universal Studios Hollywood, using the same houses.

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E5mP TIL that in 2012, an thief stole a Dali off the wall of a gallery in broad daylight but, finding no way to sell it, mailed it back. A year later, police caught him. He stole some juice from a supermarket, was fingerprinted, and the prints matched those on the returned Dali.
P1aOV TIL shrimp farmers deliberately blind female shrimp, to stimulate egg production
7rGNZ TIL that Vaclav Bozdech, a soldier in WWII, found a puppy while on the run and planned to kill it so its barking would not alert the Germans. Unable to bring himself to do so, he took it with him, and the dog later helped find survivors of an air raid and saved Bozdech's life during the Cold War.
08ky TIL that that the electric chair in Tennessee is constructed from the state gallows that it replaced in 1916.
l677 TIL we frequently abbreviate Christmas as X-mas because of ancient tradition. X is the Greek letter “chi” which is an abbreviation for the word “Christ” in Greek.