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TIL that John Candy was so beloved that when his funeral procession headed to the cemetery on the 405 freeway, the LAPD decided to station officers at on-ramps to hold all traffic. The only other times this happened was for presidential motorcades or when the Pope visited Los Angeles.

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xEKB TIL in 2010, hackers successfully broke into Sony Music servers and stole every single recording done by Michael Jackson, including unheard studio sessions and unreleased songs, contained in over 50,000 audio files. They were never caught.
xRB7 TIL after the atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 13% of the US people were in favor of “killing off” all Japanese people. And after Japan surrendered, 22.7% of Americans wished more atomic bombs had been dropped.
6wjl TIL a Russian scientist injected himself with a 3.5 million year old bacteria trapped in Siberian Permafrost ‘after successful experiments on mice and fruit flies’. He says it has made him flu proof for the past two years and gave him more energy to work longer hours.
yQLDM TIL that the total size of the entire British Army, at the start of the American Revolutionary War, was only 48,647 soldiers
D1X0P TIL Logisitics is the longest film ever made and has the run-time of 51,420 minutes (857 hours or 35 days and 17 hours)