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TIL Samuel Jackson is the actor with the highest grossing film total of all time.

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l7YJG TIL JFK's sister, Rosemary, was subjected to a prefrontal lobotomy when she was 23 years of age by request of her father. It left her incapacitated and unable to speak intelligibly. The Kennedy family did not explain her absence until 1961, where they said it was on account of "mental retardation".
kOEW7 TIL An assistant professor at Stanford created a hand powered paper centrifuge ($0.20 to make) and a paper-lense microscope($0.45-$0.55). Both helping to diagnose blood borne illnesses, such as malaria, in underdeveloped countries.
kOrx7 TIL of the Swastika Laundry, an Irish business founded in 1912 that had the swastika as its company logo. The symbol was meant to reference the ancient Indian symbol of good luck and had no Nazi ties. The company, logo and all, remained in operation until the late 80s.
m8ao TIL that Tupac lost a testicle in a 1994 shooting.
7pMO TIL that (very) rough estimates suggest that Wikipedia contains about 4% of the extant sum of all human knowledge, with 5.6 million red links (and growing).