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TIL Charlie Chaplin still has living children
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TIL Samuel L Jackson was expelled from Moorehouse for holding up the board of trustees, including MLK Sr., at gunpoint until they agreed to hire more black staff. His mother, afraid of him becoming a POI for the FBI, sent him to LA where he began acting.
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TIL that in 1965, astronaut John Young got in trouble for sneaking a corned beef sandwich on the Gemini 3 mission, which posed a risk of crumbs messing with vital space equipment.
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TIL in the pre-classical era, the ancient Greeks condoned piracy as a viable profession; it apparently was widespread and "regarded as an entirely honourable way of making a living". References are made to its perfectly normal occurrence in many texts including in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey.
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TIL The unofficial motto of the U.S. Air Force crews serving in America's nuclear missile silos is 'Death Wears Bunny Slippers' because of the tendency for missileers to wear pajamas and Snuggies while on duty.
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TIL that mapmakers for Esso invented a fake town called Agloe, New York, as a way of catching anyone who copied their maps. The trap was ruined when county officials registered Agloe as a real town.