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TIL Robert Altman earned only $70,000 for directing the 1970 film MAS*H, but his 14-year-old son earned over $1 million for writing the lyrics of its epic theme song.

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X7Dj TIL the “immortal” cancer cells of one woman, Henrietta Lacks, have been multiplying since her death in 1951 and have been used globally to research cancer, AIDS, the vaccine for polio, effects of radiation, gene mapping, and many other pursuits.
M7Y4b TIL that in 1940 the Germans conquered Denmark so quickly that the Danes didn't have time to formally declare war against them. They surrendered after 2 hours.
low5V Til about Jim Gordon, a famous drummer who played for many popular bands in the 70s and is now in prison after he murdered his mother during an episode of undiagnosed schizophrenia.
Y7J7v TIL: The sentinelese, an uncontacted hunter gatherer tribe living in a remote Indian island in the Bay of Bengal
ppWe TIL that there is was one airline crash for every 3.1 million flight flown in 2015; and that plane crashes involving “deliberate acts of unlawful interference” are not classified as accidents.