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TIL Glenn Close's father was a surgeon who worked in Africa with ebola, as well as a very tiny town in Wyoming.

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ZoAY TIL there has been a constitutional amendment that has been pending for 226 years
DQxAP TIL that in 1944 the US Army and Navy created a simulated assault on Japanese position in the center of the LA Coliseum for 250k spectators as a move to boost war-production morale and productivity
M75lV TIL the Australian Olympic breakdancer Rachael Gunn (Raygun) threatened legal action against an Aussie musical about her because the musical planned to use her stage name and "kangaroo hop" dance move. The musical continued after changing the characters' name to Sprachel Gunn, AKA Spraygun
NX0De TIl about RM Colonel Mark Nicholas Grey who in 1993 helped save thousands of life’s in Croatia by exceeding his authority and opening a spill way gate at Peruća Dam after the Serbs detonated explosives on it. His actions lowered water levels by several meters and the dam did not fail
nWP7P TIL Werner Herzog & Errol Morris once planned to dig up Ed Gein’s mother’s grave to see if he stole her corpse. Morris backed out