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TIL that Henryk Siwiak was fatally shot on 9/11/2001 and because the deaths from the terror attacks are not included in the city’s official crime statistics, Siwiak’s death is the only homicide recorded in New York City on that date.

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P1EpZ TIL that the homecoming parade in "Animal House" was scripted as occurring on November 21, 1963, the day before JFK's assassination. Producers regarded the film's setting as "the last innocent year of America".
RRP6 TIL “Ye olde” is pronounced “The old” (not “yee old”). “y” - pronounced “th” - was an English printer’s abbreviation/substitution for the Runic alphabet’s thorn (þ), a character also used in Medieval English.
bNZ TIL The Mars company was a bunch of dicks and denied Steven Spielberg the right to use their product, m&m’s, in E.T. so Reese’s Pieces were used instead. Turns out, the joke was on them because after the movie came out, sales for Reese’s Pieces increased tenfold.
GYOej TIL: The super rich of Germany are one of the most discreet in the world. This is due to a combination of not wanting to be a subject of envy, some of them deriving their wealth from WW2, and the public perception of the rich is one of the poorest in the world.
nern9 TIL In 1915 a woman was found alive after her sister ran late to her funeral, then demanded she see her sister one more time. When they dug her out, the woman sat up and smiled, she went on to live for 47 more years.