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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.

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VoDD TIL at a memorial service for Asimov Kurt Vonnegut said about the famous atheist: “Isaac is up in Heaven now.” because “That was the funniest thing I could have said to an audience of humanists.” He got roaring laughter.
j6grp TIL that the exact same Air India 787 that recently crashed (registration VT-ANB) was flying just 25km away from MH17 when it was shot down in 2014. AI171 is the deadliest aviation incident since MH17.
d8kpB TIL that Einstein hated wearing socks. In a letter to his wife he said that the reason he stopped wearing them was because his big toe always ended up making a hole in them.
6EVwJ TIL that singer-songwriter Tori Amos, received a full scholarship to the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University at the age of five. She is the youngest person ever to have been admitted. At the age of eleven, she was expelled for what Rolling Stone described as "musical insubordination".
x6b9k TIL former Alben Barkley, relegated to the back bench in his return to the Senate, noted in a speech, “I’m glad to sit in the back row, for I would rather be a servant in the House of the Lord than to sit in the seats of the mighty.” He then dropped dead.