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TIL When dropped on a very hard, rigid surface, glass balls and steel balls will bounce higher than rubber ones.

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0XpL TIL in 1982,a Chinese American man named Vincent Chin was beaten to death by Chrysler plant superintendent Ronald Ebens and his stepson, Michael Nit because they were out of work due to competition from Japanese auto-makers. In the end, they were sentenced to three years probation and a $3000 fine.
wLB5W TIL that in 1985, while taking a break from the Geneva Summit, Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev agreed to ally with one another if aliens attacked
gMleb TIL in the 1988 box-office bomb "Mac and Me", the wheelchair-bound lead child character was played by a real wheelchair-bound actor with spina bifida. In real life, when people asked why he was in a wheelchair, the 12-year-old would reply, "Vietnam."
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EgVGX TIL that the opposite of having extra fingers/toes - called polydactyly - is called oligodactyly, from the Greek "oligos-"=few.