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TIL Vin Diesel’s real name is Mark Sinclair

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yp1l TIL Stephen King wrote a handwritten review for Harry Potter & the Order of the Phoenix in which he said Dolores Umbridge was the best fictional villain since Hannibal Lecter.
Y7eKr TIL that participants in a study, when controlling a robot by joystick, were unable to create any self-tickling sensation. This suggests that tickling depends on surprise/a lack of expectation, and that the brain regulates/blocks the sensation when it can anticipate it.
mMBE TIL a driver license in Arizona expires on your 65th birthday and until then, drivers only need new photos every 12 years.
jywM TIL of SS judge Georg Konrad Morgen, who investigated corruption and murder - in Nazi concentration camps. He investigated more than 800 people for criminal activity in the camps, over a period of two years. He prosecuted so many people that Heinrich Himmler had to directly order him to stop.
LQyn9 TIL Legendary Wild West gambler and gun man Doc Holliday was convinced he would be killed in a shootout with his boots on. Instead he lay dying of tuberculosis in a hospital, asked the nurse for a shot of whisky which she denied, looked down at his bootless feet, said "This is funny" and died.