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TIL infamous investor Michael Burry has an MD degree and has an active licence in the state of California. He also lost his eye to cancer at the age of 2 and wears a prosthetic eye.

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wo8k6 TIL Taylor Momsen, actress known for portraying Cindy Lou Who, is now the lead singer of hard rock band The Pretty Reckless.
jX8E TIL In 1954 a fifteen year old told his parents he was going to school, but then rode his bike 700 miles in a week from D.C. to Atlanta because he was “homesick for Dixie and his grandmother’s fried chicken”.
MeWAm TIL the guy who played "Little Enos Burdette" in Smokey and the Bandit also sang and co-wrote "Touch" on Daft Punk's Random Access Memories
Vm7Q TIL Twelve female snipers of the Russian 3rd Shock Army have a combined kill count of 775 during World War II and it is estimated that in 1943 the Soviet Union had over 2000 female snipers in their military.
XEemE TIL that Trent Reznor felt his song "A Warm Place" was too good to be his own work. After the song had been released, he was horrified to discover that he had indeed copied the melody from a piece by David Bowie called "Crystal Japan", written for a Japanese gin advert. Bowie found this hilarious.