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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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5XKD TIL in 1954, archaeologists excavating an 8th-century Viking settlement in Sweden found a Buddha statuette from India
74np TIL that there’s a museum called “Chinsekikan” in Japan that contains nothing but rocks that look like faces. Chinsekikan means “Hall of curious rocks” in English
vyjR TIL the CEO of Susan G. Komen for the Cure had a salary of $459,406 in 2010.
57kD TIL a man convicted of 544 murders, which included 24 fetuses he cut out of pregnant women was tortured for 3 days, broken on the wheel and quartered while still alive.
GmKJ TIL that in 2003, two men stole a Boeing 727 from an Angolan airport, never to be seen again.