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TIL In 1970 John Lennon paid all of the fines for 96 people who had been arrested for protesting against the apartheid South Africa rugby team playing in Britain.

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9wPmm TIL that character actor Harry Dean Stanton, who acted in over 200 movies ('Alien', 'Paris Texas'), started as an uncredited cameo on Hitchcock's 1956 'The Wrong man'.
wJeM TIL there is an unfinished skyscraper in Caracas, Venezuela, that is home to 2,500 squatters. Residents have improvised basic utility services, use motorcycles to travel between the lower floors, and the building has many bodegas and an unlicensed dentist.
OGyre TIL A Short Film About Killing (1988) by Krzysztof Kieslowski shocked the Polish authorities and put them under pressure so much that they put a 5-year moratorium on capital punishment
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