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TIL Brad Pitt rented a resort in Mexico for Y2K, invited friends over and bribed the government to cut the power and phone lines at midnight. Then he had troops sent over to arrest one of his friends for drug charges.

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kOe47 TIL that The Red Wedding in Game of Thrones is based on a real event called The Black Dinner in which the ten-year-old King James II of Scotland invited Earl William Douglas and his younger brother to a feast, during which he had them seized, taken from the hall and murdered.
e0Rb TIL that a woman fell in love with, has a sexual relationship with, and plans to marry, an amusement park ride..
R549l TIL a black slave soldier that fought in the revolutionary War lived to see the abolition of slavery, about 80 years after the war ended
8aaLV TIL research shows people on the East Coast could save $2.1 billion over 30 years by reintroducing cougars to the East Coast, including preventing 21,400 injuries and 155 fatalities.
rQPw TIL in 1958, as an experiment, Bank of America mailed 60,000 residents of Fresno, California a small plastic card with a $500 credit line. BoA figured if it failed, there’d be no media coverage because it was in Fresno. The experiment was hugely successful and the program became Visa.