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TIL that the 1992 comedy “My Cousin Vinny” is so well regarded in the US legal community that it is frequently used in law schools to demonstrate courtroom procedures such as voire dire and cross examination

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vG7B TIL that EA sent out brass knuckles to the gamewriters of the Godfather II before realizing that they were illegal in most of the states they sent them to, including California, where EA is based.
wLAw8 TIL that the oldest known musical instrument, a 43000 years old flute, could have been made by a Neanderthal.
jNaav TIL a 10 year old girl saved the lives of 100 people from the 2004 tsunami. She had just learned about tsunamis in school before her family's vacation to Thailand. When she saw the warning signs she alerted her parents who then alerted a security guard who evacuated everyone to high ground.
vQ17 TIL that Reinhard Heydrich, one of the men responsible for the Holocaust, was such a hardcore Nazi that Adolf Hitler called him “the man with the iron heart”.
M7Nv7 TIL the curved surface of the habitat at the end of the movie Interstellar i.e. Cooper station is based on O'Neill cylinders in which two cylinders each 20miles long and 5miles in diameter rotate about their longitudinal axis thus providing centrifugal force serving as gravity.