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TIL a former Governor of Arizona, aged 96, was detained by the US Border Patrol because his pacemaker set off radiation detectors.

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WoBo TIL Jonathan Goldsmith “The Most Interesting Man in the World” played a crewmember on the original Star Trek.
ExMd TIL That people tend to overestimate their ability to effectively relay emotions over email
p8xoN TIL that the 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake and Tsunami killed 298 people and displaced more than 50,000 people in Somalia, a country on the Eastern Coast of Africa.
Eg6Nd TIL William Thornton, a phycisian and a close friend of George Washington failed to arrive early enough to treat him in 1799. Instead he proposed a plan to reanimate his frozen corpse using blankets, a transfusion with sheep's blood and a tracheostomy to pump his lungs with air. It was rejected
a87D9 TIL that the film 'Transylvania 6-5000' (1985) starring Jeff Goldblum and Ed Begley Jr. was shot in Yugoslavia and coproduced by the Dow Chemical Company. Dow had funds in Yugoslavian Dinars that could only be spent within the country, and they needed to unfreeze the assets.