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TIL Jami Gertz who played Star in 1987s The Lost Boys is currently the world's richest actor with a net worth of $3 billion.

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ne8e7 TIL the Minnesota state high school hockey tournament is the largest high school sporting event in the nation in terms of attendance and viewership
EgOgx TIL that in Japan, there is an annual Penis Festival called "Kanamara Matsuri"
N76N1 TIL Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, NBA superstar, also is the author of a trilogy of mystery novels about Mycroft and Sherlock Holmes (the second and third books are rated 4/5 on goodreads).
8GNP TIL Data for the 1890 US Census was entered on punchcards & was processed by an electromechanical tabulating machine designed/built by the company known today as IBM; it took six weeks to release the results as opposed to the 1880 census, which took seven years.
dNxj TIL a proposal and petition on the White House’s website to build a Death Star that earned 30K signatures. It would have cost $850 quadrillion, and take 833,000 years. The White House said, “the Administration does not support blowing up planets”