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TIL: The Shining's "Here Johnny" line was inspired by the Johnny Carson Show (also, Joker)?

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Y7jl7 TIL by the year 2100, the human race will have lost about half of the languages in use today. Every fourteen days a language dies. For native speakers of Navajo, Southwestern Ojibwa, Ohlone or Aragonese, losing their language means losing cultural heritage and history.
PYGJn TIL the man responsible for beheading and cannibalizing another man on a bus in Canada was released in 2015 and currently living free.
VMO5Q TIL that a French family had a roof leak in 2011. Upon inspection, the culprit turned out to be a 4.5 billion year old meteorite that had smashed through their roof tile. the family's name? Commette.
6Evjl TIL that the first anti-hacking law was passed after President Reagan saw the movie War Games and asked his staff if this could happen. A week later the response was “Mr. President, the problem is much worse than you think.”
4ge5 TIL there is a “zip bomb” that is only 42 kilobytes when zipped, but is 4.5 Petabytes uncompressed.