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e4dn TIL 100 years ago today, the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company called militiamen, company guards, and thugs to kill striking miners. They even brought in the “Death Special” which was an armored car with a machine gun mounted on it.
xVXg TIL That there are Doctor Who easter eggs in Rugrats (and it is also widly speculated Tommy is based off the Doctor).
4v66 TIL Alan Rickman staunchly defended Kevin Costner’s much criticized accent in Robin Hood, stating that 20th-century colloquial American was a lot closer to 12th-century Anglo-Saxon than modern British English.
LxmV TIL in 2004 van Gogh’s great-grandnephew, Theo, was murdered for making a film about violence against women in Islam. He was shot more than 8 times, cut in the throat to decapitate him, stabbed in the chest and stabbed with another knife attaching a note that threatened Western countries & Jews.
gMBGy TIL Wolf of Wall Street was funded by money embezzled from the Malaysian government.