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TIL that Nicholas Cage’s uncle is Francis Ford Coppola and he denied Cage a role in The Godfather Part III

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epN1k TIL that South Africa used to issue permits for Boer farmers to hunt the San people (bushmen), the last permit was issued in 1936
lWlK TIL about “token sucking” - someone, generally a homeless person, earns his sustenance by clogging the token receptacle in the subway turnstile with gum or a paperclip. The tokens become backed up in the receptacle and then “sucks them out by placing his lips around the opening and inhaling.”
b9jbp TIL that cars had push-button start until 1949
A5nn TIL Brandon Routh, who starred in Superman Returns, and Jason Momoa, who will play Aquaman in upcoming DC films, are from the same small Iowa town, went to the same highschool, and played on the soccer team together
na47 TIL that a blurry image is not always lost. There’s a program called SmartDeblur that can recover some types of blurry images.