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TIL: ASL works just fine in microgravity.

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OGYaX TIL that in 2014, a scientific paper was published with the phrase "get me off your f****g mailing list" repeated many times. The authors helped exposing what is known as a "predatory journal".
X1GP TIL Lee Harvey Oswald’s tax returns won’t be released until 2017, along with other “sensitive” JFK assassination documents. Oswald’s military intelligence file, however, was destroyed in 1973.
P7PE TIL Illusionist David Copperfield was robbed at gunpoint and used sleight-of-hand to hide his wallet, passport, and cell phone.
YaDr TIL 6-year-old Ryan Gosling, inspired by the movie “First Blood,” once took steak knives to school and threw them at other children during recess
R5bE7 TIL when the directors of Harold and Kumar (2004) took their movie to film producers, the producers said "we really love this movie", but wanted to change the main characters from Korean and Indian to "a White guy and a Black dude"