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p8Ll4 TIL a bus driver in Paris kicked all the passengers out when they refused to make space for a wheelchair bound man
1GGW TIL 2,500 people firing two AK-47s each would be able to stop a runaway locomotive within the space of 30 meters.
w4AJ TIL that William Shatner’s role just before he started acting on Star Trek was in the 1966 horror movie Incubus, which was filmed entirely in the constructed language Esperanto.
WkQXB TIL in 1906, the U.S. Supreme Court conducted its only criminal trial following the lynching of Ed Johnson, a black man whose habeus corpus petition was pending before the Supreme Court. The Sheriff holding Johnson was charged and convicted of contempt.
ym8w TIL of red cell, which was a team of ex navy seals tasked to take over millitary bases, kidnap and take hostage VIPs, steal top secret info, and even ifiltrate air force one in order to expose security flaws