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TIL that New York city will give homeless people a free one-way ticket to almost anywhere

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pmWb TIL that in October of 1994 Pulp Fiction, Forrest Gump, The Shawshank Redemption and Jurassic Park were all in theatres at the same time.
0NXA TIL Coco Chanel was a Nazi Spy. “Chanel was a consummate opportunist. The Nazis were in power, and Chanel gravitated to power. It was the story of her life.”
M7D0 TIL Brazilian soccer star Ronaldinho first gained media attention when he was just 13 after his team won a game 23-0. He scored every single goal in the game.
R7amw TIL that because of a misunderstanding over the phrase "Cover me!", US Marines (working with the LAPD) shot over 200 bullets into a house while attending to a domestic dispute during the L.A riots in 1992.
M7AR0 TIL that every 50 years, the flowering of a species of bamboo in Northeast India and Northwest Myanmar causes a ''flood'' of black rats that feed on the nutritious bamboo seeds and widespread famine. The last bloom was in 2006.