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TIL that Stalin tried to kill Yugoslavian leader Tito 22 times. Tito then wrote a letter in reply saying: “Stop sending people to kill me. If you don’t stop sending killers, I’ll send one to Moscow, and I won’t have to send a second.”

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e0A1D TIL about Borderlands 2 character Michael Mamaril. A Borderlands fan that died at 22 before Borderlands 2 came out. When his friends asked Gearbox if they would have Claptrap read a eulogy, they instead made a character in the game based off of Michael himself.
PY9vE TIL the original ending to Back to the Future would have Marty driving 88 mph towards a nuclear blast in a nuclear test site. However, Universal deemed it too expensive to shoot in the desert, so the lightning scene was instead shot at the Universal backlot and is shown in the final version.
o7lo TIL that in the show It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, the waitress that Charlie has an obsessive crush on is his actual wife in real life. They got married after the first season.
DQOgV TIL that a group of researchers hotboxed lobsters to see if they would get high. They discovered “duration-related THC levels in all tissues examined.” Along with a lowered locomotor activity.
loL15 TIL Soap Operas are called "Soap Operas" because they were literally designed to sell Dove Soap to stay-at-home women during WWII