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TIL American Psycho writer Bret Easton Ellis tried to order cocaine from his dealer but instead of texting him, he accidentally tweeted it to his 350k followers.

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89Nb TIL Ferris Bueller’s actual “day off” was June 5, 1985, pinpointed by the data from the Braves v Cubs game he attended.
d8NrQ TIL that the “actor” in Hook that is put into the Boo Box is none other than Academy Award Actress Glenn Close. She can definitely rock a beard, and those screams terrified me as a kid.
4XDGb TIL that there is a poem written in 1936 by David Shulman called Washington Crossing the Delaware, a 14-line rhyming sonnet in which every line is an anagram of the title
wLvDY TIL of Aimo Koivunen, who during WW2 became the first documented case of a soldier overdosing on methamphetamine during combat. He entered into a state of delirium and became separated from his patrol for a week. In that time he was injured by a land mine, caught and ate a raw bird, and skied 400km.
rRj0M TIL the Carrier Dome in Syracuse sported sixteen 5 foot diameter fans around the clock. Increasing the power of the fans boosts the air pressure in the facility, adding tension to the roof’s fabrics and cables to help avoid entire stadium from collapsing from weight of winter snow