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TIL NYC Firefighter Steve Buscemi was arrested in 2003 for protesting the closing of numerous firehouses.

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nWoJG TIL that in 1974, filmmaker Bob Clark directed a horror film, "Black Christmas," about a deranged killer who murdered girls on a sorority campus during the Christmas season. 9 years later in 1983, Clark once again directed a Christmas film, this time a family-comedy, titled "A Christmas Story."
awDQJ TIL that on their 2000 album 'Hooray for Boobies', the Bloodhound Gang included a track called "The Ten Coolest Things About New Jersey". The song is just ten seconds of silence.
YrZd TIL: 150 hand-picked homosexual partners made up an elite ancient fighting force in Greece
ag0J TIL the only reason Tom Cruise was literally in a closet in South Park, was Trey Parker getting around the legal repercussions of calling him gay directly. The Lawyers wouldn’t allow it, so he rewrote the scene to have him trapped in a closet.
YDRP TIL that a prominent American physicist thinks that scientists who are observing dark matter these days could very well be setting off a chain of events which annihilates the universe.