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TIL a 16 year old named Max Wade managed to pull off a heist of movie proportions when he rappel’d into a Ferrari shop and stole Guy Fieri’s Lamborghini, and the janitor suspected of helping was never found.

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BroRr TIL Samuel L. Jackson was an usher at the funeral of Martin Luther King Jr.
vAX7 TIL of Frank Durrant, a WW2 British Commando who, while shot 16 times and in Command of a small wooden boat - Took on a German Destroyer so ferociously the German captain recommended to the British Army he was awarded the Victoria Cross. He was.
D1rOY TIL in 1957, San Francisco's "Youth for Service" program helped get young gang members off the streets by having them help the community. They did things like paint houses and help the elderly. The idea was that they just wanted to feel needed.
gMRV8 TIL that fellows of St John's College, Cambridge University are the only people other than the Queen who are legally allowed to eat unmarked mute swans in England
JYD8V TIL of Brian Wells, the pizza delivery driver who alleged to have been taken hostage with a bomb around his neck and instructed to rob a bank