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TIL that after 9/11, a commuter train station in New Jersey made chalk marks on the tires of unclaimed cars in the station parking lot to help identify the missing

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9wYYG TIL that the danish 19th century pastor N.F.S. Grundtvig argued for freedom of speech and religion with the quote: "Freedom for Loki as well as for Thor"
VMdw8 TIL Charlie Chaplin got a 16-year-old pregnant, married her to avoid jail time, then divorced her when she turned 18. He then set his eyes on a 12-year-old when she was cast in his movie. Got her pregnant at 16, pressured her to abort the child. When she refused he had her removed from a film.
WkPWN TIL In 1999 Pope John Paul II released an album. It had entirely original compositions and reached #175 on the billboard charts
xVoxg TIL that extras in films and TV shows are often ordered to repeat "Watermelon cantaloupe" or "Rhubarb rhubarb" over and over in order to imitate the murmur of a crowd in the background of the scene. The mouth movements to say these phrases are sufficient to give the illusion of real speech.
grlxX TIL Hitler was not a German citizen by birth. He was born in Austria and it was only in 1932 that he became a citizen of the country.