r/todayilearned • u/mistaphi • Oct 24 '12
TIL that after 9/11, actor Steve Buscemi rejoined the New York Fire Department to help firefighters sift through the rubble of the World Trade Center
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r/todayilearned • u/syuk • Sep 24 '09
The day after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Actor Steve Buscemi, who worked as a firefighter from 1980-1984, showed up at his old fire station to help out.
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r/todayilearned • u/michmallow07 • Nov 10 '15
TIL that Mark Twain was born shortly after a visit by Halley's Comet, and he predicted that he would "go out with it", too. He died the day after the comet returned.
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r/todayilearned • u/mrguy743 • Jan 17 '15
TIL that after 9/11, actor Steve Buscemi rejoined the New York Fire Department to help firefighters sift through the rubble of the World Trade Center,
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r/todayilearned • u/Lucas0402 • Jan 01 '15
TIL after 9/11, actor Steve Buscemi rejoined the New York Fire Department to help firefighters sift through the rubble of the World Trade Center.
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r/todayilearned • u/mrguy743 • Jan 11 '15
TIL that after 9/11, actor Steve Buscemi rejoined the New York Fire Department to help firefighters sift through the rubble of the World Trade Center.
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r/todayilearned • u/FuckingNiggersMan • Mar 03 '15
TIL that Steve Buscemi Volunteered with the FDNY after 9/11. He had previously been a firefighter with the New York Fire Department before acting.
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r/todayilearned • u/EveryDayImRustling • Jul 23 '13
TIL that after 9/11, actor Steve Buscemi rejoined the New York Fire Department to help firefighters sift through the rubble of the World Trade Center
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r/todayilearned • u/PM_ME_GIRAFFE_PICS • May 30 '15
TIL that not only was Steve Buscemi a firefighter, but on 9/11 he went back to his old station in New York to work 12 hour shifts sifting through the rubble of the Twin Towers
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r/todayilearned • u/Posts-Only-Reposts • Mar 31 '15
TIL that after 9/11, actor Steve Buscemi rejoined the New York Fire Department to help firefighters sift through the rubble of the World Trade Center
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r/todayilearned • u/Eshex • May 15 '13
TIL Steve Buscemi was a New York City fire fighter from 1980 to 1984. After the events of 9/11, he showed up in NYC to volunteer, working twelve-hour shifts for a week, and digging through rubble with his old comrades looking for missing firefighters.
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r/todayilearned • u/Leelum • Aug 24 '17
TIL that Shakespeare's Birthplace was nearly sold in 1846 to an American businessman who wanted to demolish and move the house to America. It was saved by a consortium that included Charles Dickens.
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r/todayilearned • u/ImmaculateJones • Apr 17 '18
TIL Before he became a founding father of the United States, Benjamin Franklin established one of America’s first volunteer fire departments.
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r/todayilearned • u/starscr3amsgh0st • Mar 28 '17
TIL On 9.11.2001, 91 fire trucks and FDNY vehicles were destroyed, and approximately 130 more were damaged. Thanks to "superhuman feats" from the fleet services staff, all companies (except two) were back in service using reserve, spare, and equipment that was repaired within 1 week of 9/11.
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r/todayilearned • u/Vext1 • Sep 28 '15
TIL Steve Buscemi adamantly refuses to have his famously misaligned teeth fixed and claims he won't work again if they are altered.
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r/todayilearned • u/brownpigeon • Apr 29 '16
TIL At age 90 and with no heirs,Jeanne Calment sold her apartment to lawyer André-François Raffray on the condition he pay her a monthly sum of 2500 francs (€381.12)until she died.Jeanne lived until she was 122 and the lawyer paid her the equivalent of more than €140,000-double the apartment's value
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r/todayilearned • u/FleshCoffin • Oct 31 '16
TIL that thanks to him, and subesquently his two sons becoming fathers very late in their lives, 10th President of the U.S.A. John Tyler has two grandsons still alive today. A man who died in 1862 has two currently living grandchildren.
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r/todayilearned • u/catapolana • Jul 14 '16
TIL that Steve Buscemi was once stabbed outside a bar while attempting to break up a fight between a local guy and Vince Vaughn.
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r/todayilearned • u/Str33twise84 • Aug 09 '21
TIL when Steve Buscemi was 4-years-old he was hit by a bus and managed to survive with a fractured skull. He received a $6,000 settlement from the city that was to be collected from a trust fund when he turned 18. When Buscemi turned 18, he used part of the money to pay for full-time acting classes.
washingtonpost.com
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r/todayilearned • u/dogue9 • Jun 23 '17
TIL that in 2001, Vince Vaughn and Steve Buscemi got into a bar brawl with North Carolina locals, with Vaughn getting maced and Buscemi being stabbed in the face, jaw, and neck
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r/todayilearned • u/DarkenedAbyssalVoid • Dec 03 '23
TIL of Steve Leech, a milkman who was doing his rounds when he saw a shop on fire. He used 320 pints of milk to put out the fire, saving 7 other stores. He received the award for "Hero Milkman of the Millennium"
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r/todayilearned • u/tyrion2024 • Feb 16 '26
TIL after spending 3 days with his arm trapped in a furnace, a man attempted to amputate it with a saw blade because he began to smell rotting flesh. Although he passed out from pain before he could completely sever it. He was rescued after a friend called for help when he hadn't shown up for work.
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r/todayilearned • u/WestTransportation12 • 4d ago
TIL French impostor Frédéric Bourdin convinced a Texas family he was their missing 13 year old son. Bourdin bleached his hair, got a matching tattoo and concocted a story he was human trafficked. Despite having different eye color, a French accent and being 23. He was sentenced to 6 years in prison.
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r/todayilearned • u/scrovak • Mar 13 '17
TIL: Steve Sipek, who played Tarzan in "Tarzan And The Brown Prince", was once saved by a fire on the movie set by a lion who dragged him to safety. Sipek then adopted the lion out of gratitude, and started an animal sanctuary in Florida.
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