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TIL Stephen Hawking provided the voice for his own character in Futurama

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R7xOw TIL The law, Section 1498, gives the government the right to override any pharmaceutical patent at any time as long as the company receives “reasonable compensation.”
P1XyE TIL that in 1958, a man fell into a hidden nuclear bomb buried under snow in Greenland. The U.S. lost several hydrogen bombs in accidents during the Cold War, and some have never been recovered.
ewOJ TIL that a Singaporean pilot, Tsu Whey Ming, committed murder/suicide by intentionally crashing the 737-300 he was piloting, killing all 104 people on board, and that the Indonesian authorities covered up the report prompting the U.S. NTSB, in an unprecedented move, to publicly contradict them
w6BW TIL Arkham Asylum was named after Arkham, Massachusetts, the fictional town central to many H.P. Lovecraft stories.
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