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TIL Quentin Tarantino has more than 6000 € late fees at a german video library, for 2 movies he rented during the shoot of Inglourious Basterds in Berlin 5 years ago.

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JYgM1 TIL After the deaths of his brothers JFK and RFK, Ted Kennedy became the sole patriarch to the Kennedy family. On the same day his 12-year-old son was having his cancer-laden leg amputated, Ted had to rush down to lead his niece, RFK’s daughter, down the aisle at her wedding.
5YYVR TIL that in 1966, when asked by a Senate subcommittee member about the dangers of LSD, Timothy Leary stated: “Sir, the motor car is dangerous if used improperly…Human stupidity and ignorance is the only danger human beings face in this world.” The Senator he was replying to was Ted Kennedy.
xPQ5 TIL the Cleveland Indians once held an ill-fated promotion called 10 cent beer night. A riot ensued and members of both teams had to fight fans to escape the stadium.
A47x TIL that gaslighting was used as early as WWII by Nazi Germany as one of the Zersetzung psychological manipulation warfare techniques to destroy and drive political opponents to psychosis and suicide.
rR4Y4 TIL we tried fracking with nukes in the 60s, and only stopped because the gas was too radioactive to use