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TIL of Dorothy Steel, the 91 yr old who made her big film acting debut as merchant tribal elder, who advises Chadwick Boseman's character in Marvel's "Black Panther." She sent in her audition tape and Marvel exec's said "Who is that old lady? We want her." She began her acting career at 88.

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W7XN9 TIL Pinkpop is the oldest and longest running annual dedicated pop and rock music festival in the world.
1gVD TIL- The new Navy laser weapon system costs less than a dollar to fire and never missed a target in testing, making it the most effective and cost effective weapon the Navy has available.
OowKY TIL Animated series Captain Pugwash was believed to have featured characters with risqué names such as Master Bates, Seaman Staines and Roger the Cabin Boy. They were actually Master Mate, Tom the Cabin Boy, and Pirates Barnabas and Willy. Two British newspapers were successfully sued for the error.
LpEV TIL a sociopathic 10 year old girl killed two boys. One of the crime scenes was described by the inspector as “There was a terrible playfulness about it…and somehow the playfulness of it made it more, rather than less, terrifying”. She was convicted and then released at the age of 23.
Lkwxv TIL that the mathematician Augustus De Morgan, writing in 1864, noted that he had the distinction of being x years old in the year x-squared.