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Today I Learned: Guy Pearce Is Australian

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awZ80 TIL: Advent Calendars were originally called "Nicholas Calendars" and we're given out on December 6th.
xVklk TIL of the Shirky Principle: "Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution."
v9PD TIL that Henryk Siwiak was fatally shot on 9/11/2001 and because the deaths from the terror attacks are not included in the city’s official crime statistics, Siwiak’s death is the only homicide recorded in New York City on that date.
P1mZV TIL Dodge City was once so associated with vice that it was nicknamed “the Sodom of the West.”
9wvLB TIL that Ma and Pa Kettle, from the book The Egg and I, were actually based on a real family, the Bishops.