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TIL: While the FBI was searching for Goodman, Chaney, and Schwerner they found 8 other bodies of missing black men killed by the Klan.

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v1YXD TIL Art Bell set a Guinness World Record by staying on the air for 116 hours and 15 minutes. Using the money raised on air, Bell chartered a plane to fly to Vietnam and rescue 130 stranded Vietnamese orphans, who were eventually brought to the United States and adopted by American families.
OdER TIL that due to budget issues, the Lord of the Rings trilogy was briefly planned as one film. Helm’s Deep and Saruman were cut, Rohan and Gondor merged with Éowyn as Boromir’s sister, etc. Upset by the idea of “cutting out half the good stuff,” Peter Jackson left Miramax and went to New Line Cinema.
wLvZJ Female whale sharks rule the oceans, reaching average lengths of 14 metres.
VB4o0 TIL that April Fool's Day has existed since at least the mid-sixteenth century. The earliest unambiguous reference is a poem published in 1561 by the Flemish writer Eduard De Dene, which described a nobleman who sent his servant back and forth on various absurd errands on April 1st
NXpY1 TIL: In the UK they call Rube Goldberg machines "Heath Robinson contraptions"