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TIL that Marilyn Monroe was a method actor. She studied with the method acting pioneer Lee Strasberg, who also taught actors such as Al Pacino, Robert De Niro and James Dean.

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NX818 TIL about Kriss Donald. This 15 year-old was murdered in 2004 by a gang of five men who had been in a fight with White people that week and decided to get collective vengeance against Whites. They found him, kidnapped him, gouged his eyes off, castrated him, stabbed him and finally set him on fire
yVbGl TIL During a 1972 John Lennon/Chuck Berry jam session that the sound engineers muted yokos mic.
PYYMZ TIL Little Caesars founder and Detroit Tigers owner, Mike Ilitch quietly paid for Rosa Parks's rent after her Detroit home was robbed in 1994 until her death in 2005.
y0ZJ TIL Terminator 2: Judgement Day is the only movie sequel to win an Academy Award where the previous movie wasn’t even nominated.
OWXg TIL of David Johnson, volcanologist. Successfully fought a Chief Brody-like fight to keep the summit Mt St Helens & Spirit Lake visitor-free for 2 months before the cataclysm. Instead of 1000 deaths there was 53; him among them, radioing “…Vancouver, this is it” seconds before he was incinerated.