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TIL that Stephen Hawking is the only person who has portrayed himself in Star Trek. Specifically, in a poker game between Hawking, Einstein, Newton, and Data.

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gO57 TIL Michael Jordan was not cut from his high school basketball team, instead he was placed on JV due to his coach’s “No sophomores on Varsity” rule.
780PM TIL that, from 1935, the SS-managed Lebensborn foundation managed a network of maternity homes for unmarried mothers and orphanages for kidnapped children in order to further the Aryan race
rvo4 TIL in 2007, Quality Pork Processing, a Hormel supplier, had an outbreak of a rare neurological disorder to workers in and around the brain machine. None have fully recovered.
J7xQ TIL that tuition to the University of California system in the 1960’s was completely free.