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TIL a Chiefs superfan known as “Helmet Man” was banned from attending games because he was part of the Witness Protection Program for being a witness in the 1993 WTC bombing.

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MWYK TIL Dolph Lundgren had a Fulbright scholarship to MIT to study chemical engineering, and road-tripped up from NYC on a motorcycle and rolled onto campus with his then girlfriend Grace Jones on the back.
X0Ler TIL about the Wilmington Massacre, a race related insurrection and massacre perpetrated in 1898 in Wilmington North Carolina
mxknE TIL that since modern civilizations and languages likely won't exist 10,000 years from now, signs warning about nuclear waste (which will still be dangerous then) have to be designed to be understood by anyone, without the use of language. These tools include pictograms and hostile architecture.
XEQJP TIL that originally Mt. Rushmore was to feature the faces of famous mountain men; Kit Carson, John Colter and Jim Bridger (played by Will Poulter in the 2015 film The Revenant)
rRxL1 TIL in 2001, a scientist successfully trained pigeons to distinguish between paintings by Vincent van Gogh and Marc Chagall - including paintings the pigeons had never seen before.