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TIL comedian Greg Giraldo had a law degree from Harvard

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9Y5MD TIL of the National Film Registry, a selection of movies deemed "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant" and has earned preservation by the Library of Congress.
oRknW TIL that the Polish anti-communist organization Fighting Solidarity learned that the AMSAT-OSCAR 7, an apparently inactive satellite after a battery failture, had in fact remained intermittently functional, and used it surreptitiously for communication during the martial law in Poland.
J1Lwm TIL whale oil was used in transmissions until its ban in 1972, when less than 1 million transmissions failed each year; without whale oil, yearly transmission failures became more than 8 million by 1975. This led to thousands of transmission shops opening across the USA in the late 1970s and ’80s
MeQrm TIL that the superhero Black Panther predates the founding of the Black Panther Party, and Marvel even changed the name for a while to "Black Leopard" in order to avoid confusion
d4VZ TIL that there is a sergeant on the California State Patrol who is called “The Guardian of the Golden Gate Bridge.” He has stopped hundreds of people from jumping into the water.