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TIL Harrison Ford was paid $10000 for Star Wars
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TIL As a child, Stephen Colbert suppressed his Southern accent to avoid the stereotypes of Southerners he saw on TV. He practiced by trying to imitate news anchors.
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TIL Chinese Traditional Medicine uses Tiger Penis, Pangolin Scales, Shark Fins, and more endangered animal parts, as well as human byproducts such as pubic hair. In total, 36 animals and over 1000 plants are used, to little actual medical effect.
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TIL of the Lavabit case, where the FBI used loopholes and exploits to force surveillance into a secure email service: “since the ‘inspection’ of the data was to be carried out by a machine, it was exempt from the normal search-and-seizure protections of the Fourth Amendment.”
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TIL that the Infinite Monkey Theorem, stating that monkeys with typewriters and enough time could produce the entire works of Shakespeare, has been tried out in real life. They wrote five pages of S, slammed the keyboard with a stone and took a shit on it.
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TIL after refusing to log out of Halo 2 for more than three weeks after its scheduled end, the last person in Xbox Live on an original Xbox succumbed.