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TIL when Nicolas Cage was sleeping at his home, he was awoken by a presence. Cage awoke to find a naked man before his eyes, eating a fudgesicle and wearing his jacket. “It sounds funny” Cage said, “but it was horrifying”. Cage used “Verbal Judo” to get the man to leave. Cage now lives on an island.

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wopNY TIL Julius Schmid arrived in NYC as a penniless, partially paralyzed German immigrant. He got a job at a sausage maker where he started selling the leftover animal intestines as condoms. He grew this into a multi-million dollar business eventually being named "the undisputed king of condoms".
WkKj4 TIL the first pilot to spot incoming Japanese fighters at Pearl Harbor was a woman. Her name was Cornelia Fort and she was a civilian flight instructor. 2 years later she was killed in a mid-air collision and became the first female pilot to be killed on active military duty.
wLRa7 TIL that at the age of 10, a boy named Alexander Bell asked his father if could have a middle name. As a result, on his 11th birthday, he became Alexander Graham Bell of telephone fame.
NXVX1 TIL that the Colegio de Santa Cruz de Tlatelolco is the first and oldest European school of higher learning in the Americas, established by the Franciscans in 1536.
epg04 TIL there were 8 US Presidents that filed for Bankruptcy