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TIL Disney paid $75 Million for rights to show Lin-Manuel Miranda’s ‘Hamilton’

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P19oG TIL that four drivers were killed over the 11 races of the 1958 Formula 1 season. The eventual world champion was also killed in a crash shortly after the season ended.
dxM9 TIL after Ken Jeong’s wife was diagnosed with cancer, she told him to pursue his dreams. He put a hold on his doctor career and began his comedian one.
e0wnL TIL that the inventor of Vaseline believed in the medicinal properties of the product he ate a spoonful of it everyday. He lived to be 96.
Z8aJa TIL of the SS Tullibee, US WWII submarine that sunk itself when the torpedo it fired made a full circle and came back around to strike the submarine. There was 1 survivor.
Wk6DB TIL Mark Zuckerberg was sued by 3 reporters from the Crimson, after Zuckerberg hacked into their email accounts to monitor the investigation against him. He used their invalid logins on facebook.com, to zero in on their email passwords.