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TIL Joe Pesci has only been in 2 movies since 1998.

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7aKb TIL - The first female flight attendants had to be an unwed nurse, weight between 100-118 lbs, stand 5ft to 5'4" and be 20 to 26 years old
1aVpd TIL in 2012 an extreme solar storm missed Earth by 9 days that could have caused nearly $2.5 trillion dollars in damage and loss of power for years on end. There is a 12% chance of a solar storm with the same magnitude to hit us in the next decade.
vABr TIL a shipping container filled with millions of Lego pieces fell into the sea off Cornwall in 1997. But instead of remaining at the bottom of the ocean, they are still washing up on Cornish beaches today.
rRVeM TIL that Jack Johnson was a professional surfer before singer/songwriter and “at 17 he was the youngest participant to reach the finals at the Pipeline Masters in Maui.”
jN5Dp TIL the earliest recorded use of LOL as an initialism was for "little old lady" in the 1960s. During the Apollo mission, ferrite cores were used as transformers and acted as either a binary one or zero. The LOLs created the required software by weaving together sequences of one and zero cores.