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TIL:The director of Cannibal Holocaust had to prove in court that the actors were still alive and didn’t get killed during the movie

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D1ZgP TIL as a kid, Ice-T had his bike stolen. He told his father about it; he simply shrugged and said: "Well, then, you ain't got no bike." Ice-T then stole parts from various bicycles and assembled "three or four weird-looking, brightly-painted bikes" from the parts. His father never even noticed.
8eWRX TIL that before the Lindbergh Kidnapping in 1931, kidnapping was not a federal crime.
kJAy1 TIL In the sitcom "The King of Queens," Carrie Heffernan had a sister named Sara who appeared in five of the first six episodes in Season 1 and then disappeared. Although mentioned in Season 3, subsequent plotlines and dialogue suggested that the sister never existed.
lo4NK TIL on November 24, 2021, NASA launched its DART Mission to test propulsion technology designed to alter the course of an asteroid. The unmanned mission will intercept a moonlet of the asteroid Didymos in late September 2022, attempting to change the orbital period and thus change Didymos’ momentum
GAPM1 TIL Jeff Koons' studio resembles an art factory. He doesn't do the sculpting or much of the painting in his artwork. It's his ideas & standards but artisans do the labor. In 2019, his stainless steel inflatable rabbit resold for $91 million; highest ever paid at auction for a work by a living artist