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TIL that ‘Django Unchained’ was the first movie featuring Leonardo DiCaprio in 16 years in which he didn’t get the top billing

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yX8V TIL Anthony Curcio put an ad on Craigslist for 15-20 similarly dressed workers for a fake cleanup project and to meet in a bank parking lot at the time he was to rob an armored truck. Curcio, dressed like the others, worked the grounds, pepper-sprayed the driver, and left with over $400,000.
PYVdJ TIL that Iceland in 1940 passed a law that made swimming lessons mandatory in schools starting at grade 1 (age 6) to grade 10 (age 16). Lessons are held once a week. Historically, a lot of Icelandic seamen had met a tragic end because of the harsh sea and this law was an attempt at saving lives.
EEKP TIL Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie & Emma Thompson all started their career together at Footlights student theater club while at Cambridge university. Same club also gave Simon Bird(The Inbetweeners), John Oliver(The Daily Show) & Douglas Adams(Hitchhickers guide to the galaxy)
md9v TIL of ‘Tetris Effect’, where a person devoting a large amount of time to a particular pattern-based activity(which in this case is Tetris) will start unconsciously thinking and dreaming about it
WnQN TIL about the Dyatlov Pass Incident, in which 9 hikers died. They “tore out” of their tents at night in sub-zero temps. 4 died of hypothermia, 3 had fractured skulls, 1 had brain damage but no physical trauma, and 1 had her eyes and tongue removed. Their deaths remain a mystery.