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TIL that the robbery of the Federal Reserve in Die Hard with a Vengeance is so plausible that the FBI actually questioned the screenwriter on how he had such intimate knowledge of the vaults.

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Z8Dxp TIL about Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web. Had he remained the sole owner of his creation, he could have easily become the world’s first trillionaire. However, Berners-Lee graciously decided to hand over the Web to the world, no strings attached.
VBOK4 TIL Mercedes Benz, the flagship car brand of the Nazis, was named after a Jewish girl, who's grandfather was a well regarded rabbi and intellectual in the Jewish community in Vienna.
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