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TIL Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman threw dollar bills on the NYSE trading floor to watch traders scramble to pick them up.
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TIL Gaslight (1944), living up to the term it would inspire, was produced under the condition all existing copies of Gaslight (1940) should be erased from existence so that it could not compete with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s remake of the film.
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TIL: When Japanese WWII soldier Hiroo Onoda heard of Japan's surrender, he believed it was Allied propaganda. He and his unit remained in the mountains, killing 30 Filipinos and engaging in several shootouts with the police. He finally surrendered in 1974, 30 years after the war ended.
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TIL A Japanese man got a suspended sentence for kidnapping THREE girls because he just wanted to teach them about real estate, only to later be arrested for rape.
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TIL A man got a suspended sentence for kidnapping THREE girls because he just wanted to teach them about real estate, only to later be arrested for rape in Japan.
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TIL A man got a suspended sentence for kidnapping THREE girls because he just wanted to teach them about real estate, only to later be arrested for rape
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