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TIL A24 came into being because one evening while driving on a highway to Rome, Daniel Katz, an employee in the financing division of Guggenheim Partners got an idea to challenge the old Hollywood system. The creative idea on the A24 highway to Rome became the genesis of his new film company, A24.

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oRdvW TIL Ulysses Grant was arrested for speeding and later said that the Black police officer who took him in should face “no consequences” for doing his job
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4koXJ TIL that Alexander Bogdanov, a Russian scientist, experimented with blood transfusions from younger individuals for rejuvenation. He tragically died after transfusing blood from a student with malaria and tuberculosis, though the student miraculously recovered.
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69W6J TIL in 1988 a teenager attempted suicide with a gun due to his severe obsessive compulsive disorder but instead the bullet destroyed the part of his brain causing the disorder without damaging his ability to think or learn. After recovery, he finished college which had previously been disrupted..22-