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TIL John Hughes chose to live in Chicago (where all his movies were set) rather than Hollywood or NYC because he preferred living among normal folks. "[In LA], you spend too much time with other people in the business and you trade ideas back and forth and it all sort of comes out looking the same."

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0krp TIL during the Holocaust one Jewish woman exposed between 600 and 3000 hiding Jews to the Gestapo to prevent her family from being sent to a concentration camp. Even after the Nazis sent her parents and husband to Auschwitz anyway in 1943, she continued to work for the Gestapo until 1945
l75JK TIL that a museum in a tiny Western Canadian town has one of only 17 remaining Avro Lancaster aircraft in the world, and its Lancaster is one of only 4 in the world which can taxi under its own power
GA7Y5 TIL about thick water, which is used to help people with difficulties swallowing stay hydrated
yQjyX TIL that George Washington is the second richest American president in history, worth 580 million when adjusted for inflation.
a8ebA TIL that the first combat drones appeared in 1930-1940. These were radio-controlled unmanned tanks that could drive, shoot and even self-destruct at command from the outside. Usually they were controlled from another tank