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TIL Chunk from the Goonies is now a Lawyer.

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kOeMe TIL scientists proposed a “Minimal Turing Test” where you get to use only one word to convince others you are human, and not a machine. The single word that people found most likely to distinguish a human from a machine based on a new study was the word “poop”.
VMvw4 TIL, that despite being credited with "discovering America", Columbus never set foot on the continent of North America. The closest he got was Cuba and Puerto Rico.
QQne TIL that for a shot in Transformers, Michael Bay had the cast members run over “a carpet of explosives.” He warned them not to stop or trip. The actors’ look of terror is real.
LxeZ TIL: The original Anti-Vaxxer falsified his findings and no other scientist has ever been able to verify his results.
0dwYj TIL that Sammy Davis Jr. played the first black American president in 1933 when he was 8