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Public reaction to Kim Jong-il's death

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When Star Wars began airing on television in 2003, Chile stitched the commercials into the films themselves to avoid cutting to commercial breaks

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Construction of the Louvre Pyramid in Paris, 1981. Apparently the password for the Louvre's video surveillance system was "Louvre". The jokes write themselves.

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A bank robber named "Pretty Boy" Floyd was known for destroying mortgage papers during heists, freeing hundreds of people from property debt. Active during the 1930s, Floyd was particularly known in Oklahoma, where he was sometimes called the "Robin Hood of the Cookson Hills." Despite his life of crime, he enjoyed a measure of public support because the Great Depression had left many people struggling with debt and unemployment. The idea that he intentionally burned documents to free people from debt is debated by historians. Nevertheless, countless folktales circulated portraying Floyd as helping ordinary people and casting him in a more positive light despite his criminal activities.

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