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TIL that Wall Street (NYC) was named because of a northern wall boundary to keep natives out

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rRRGe TIL that Lithuania has a festival where people dress out as gypsies and jews and goes around asking for money
BrayD TIL a law school grad sued her alma mater, Thomas Jefferson School of Law, because she felt they made false statements that she'd be able to get a good job after acquiring a law degree from them. She lost the case.
9wnbM TIL the medic that appears at the end of the movie "Captain Phillips" was a real corpsman and improvised the scene with Tom Hanks. Some of her shipmates were resentful of the attention she got and gave her a hard time during her deployment, causing her to regret appearing in the film.
awxaN TIL NBC cancelled the scifi sitcom "ALF" in 1990 to make room for the Will Smith sitcom "Fresh Prince of Bel Air", leaving the show on a cliffhanger that never got resolved.
LDe0 TIL the instinctive, irrational urge to jump from high places is normal, and called l'appel du vide.