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TIL Frank Abagnale portrayed by Leonardo DiCaprio in Catch Me If You Can escaped prison by convincing a group of guards that he was actually an undercover prison inspector pretending to be an inmate

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gMYXb TIL knights were actually more useful in raiding and guerrilla warfare than open field battles. They weren't the tanks of medieval times, but the special forces.
9Y7WG TIL Deglazing: What it Is and Why To Do It. Deglazing is a fancy and intimidating word that means to pour some cold liquid into a very hot pan to get up all the brown bits stuck to the bottom of the pan. Those brown bits are where all the flavors are, and it is called “fond.”
ogLA TIL Up to 70% of people will experience a hypnagogic jerk when falling asleep. A hypnagogic jerk is an involuntary muscle spasm that occurs as a person is drifting off to sleep. The phenomenon is so named in reference to the hypnogogic state — the transitional period between wakefulness and sleep.
oBZ1K TIL that John Adams (successfully) defended the British Troops in their murder trial, sealing his reputation as one of the best lawyers in Massachusetts at age 35
KYbjG TIL that Earth's atmosphere is leaking. Every day, around 90 tonnes of material escapes from our planet's upper atmosphere and streams out into space.