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TIL That on November 21, 2012: Following a cease-fire ending fighting with Israel, celebratory gunfire in the Gaza Strip killed a man and wounded three others.

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Rv9l TIL Polish composer André Tchaikowsky donated his skull to the Royal Shakespeare Company in hopes that it would be used as a prop for the skull of Yorick. In 2008, the skull was used in a series of performances of Hamlet at the Courtyard Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon.
6LOY TIL Will Smith’s shortened first name does not stand for William. It’s Willard Caroll Smith, Jr. In addition, he has a 22 year old son also named Willard (III). Except Willard III goes by “Trey”
96lG TIL Grand Central Station, due to it’s granite construction, is radioactive enough to fail an inspection if it were a nuclear power station.
WKAN TIL: Stephen King donated so much money to help build a baseball field in Maine that the locals affectionately call it “Field of Screams”.
Y7nJA TIL heinz spent 185,000 hours over eight yeas redesigning its squeeze bottle lid