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TIL that in 2011, 22 fake Apple stores were uncovered in just one Chinese city.

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jNXNN TIL That the director of The Shawshank Redemption bought the script from Stephen King for just $5,000 and could have sold it for $3 million after working on it for just 8 weeks to turn it into a movie script. Even though he was a first-time director, he refused and directed the movie himself.
XEvp6 TIL of Arek Hersh, a Jewish man who survived the Holocaust as a child. At the age of 14, he was sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau. He was tattooed with the number B7608 and had his only photographs of his family ripped away from him. The Holocaust killed 81 members of his family. Only his sister survived.
KYOBR TIL those with a genetic predisposition to paranoid schizophrenia can have symptoms of the disease induced through social and environmental stress
D6yD TIL President Carter’s son and Willie Nelson got high together on the roof of the White House.
7rKYx TIL the Italian city of Bologna had 180 towers by AD 1200. The tallest, at 320 ft (97 meters) high, still stands and was completed in AD 1119.