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TIL Jake Lloyd was bullied so much after his role in the phantom menace his acting career, life and childhood were ruined and he got into a high speed chase after yelling at his mom for getting him the role and ruining his life which he never forgave her for.

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W745o Today I Learned Chiune Sugihara, the famous diplomat who wrote visas to 6,000 jews, was born on January 1, 1900, the first day of the first month of the first year of the 20th century.
oRyd7 TIL that the Museum of Broken Relationships in Zagreb, Croatia, displays artifacts from past relationships that ended. The exhibits, contributed by people worldwide, tell unique stories of love, loss, and closure, offering a poignant insight into the universal experiences of breakups and moving on.
YVVx TIL Nixon’s family was poor. They couldn’t afford lavish vacations. And there weren’t that many national parks. So he corrected that by creating the EPA.
yVK4V TIL in 1964, ABC premiered "A Carol for Another Christmas," a made-for-TV movie written by Twilight Zone creator Rod Serling as a modernization of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol." The film is both a retelling of the classic tale and a call for cooperation between nations.
4X4Y6 TIL that up until the 1600s, a “black swan” was a metaphor for something that did not exist. Then a group of Dutch explorers became the first Europeans to see black swans in Western Australia in 1697, and the phrase was amended to mean “a perceived impossibility that might later be disproven.”