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TIL Aldous Huxley & C.S. Lewis died hours apart. Their deaths were overshadowed by news of the JFK assassination, which occurred on the same day

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wGJE TIL Mose from The Office is the co-creator of Brooklyn Nine-Nine and Parks and Rec
GYWDg TIL that formed FBI director Louis Freeh once said, “Ask the American public if they want an FBI wiretap and they’ll say, ‘No’. If you ask them do they want a feature on their phone that helps the FBI find their missing child they’ll say, ‘Yes’.”
9w47X TIL that during the production of the film “Roadhouse” (1989), all the actors did their own stunts. Actor Sam Elliott recalled: "All the actors, as far as I know, did their own fighting. I fucking got the shit kicked out of me for the entire film."
v6nR TIL Eyeglasses and Sunglasses tend to cost so much because a company known as Luxottica owns the vast majority of eyewear companies and distributors.
PYoeZ TIL of King Alexander of Greece who died after being bitten by a monkey that had attacked his German shepherd. This significantly impacted Balkan history and Winston Churchill later wrote, "it is perhaps no exaggeration to remark that a quarter of a million persons died of this monkey's bite."