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TIL actor Sean Astin of Goonies and Lord of the Rings fame is the son of actress Patty Duke

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XE8D6 TIL of Vincent Chin, a Chinese-American man who was murdered in 1982 by two laid-off auto workers. Blaming the increasing popularity of Japanese cars in America for their redundancy, and the US' auto industry struggles, the men assumed Chin was Japanese, and beat him to death in a nightclub.
OXGg TIL that the Sinclair Method is 80% effective in 90 clinical trials at treating alcohol addiction, much more effective in the long term to the 12 Step Method from AA.
yQdL8 TIL Rose plants are placed at the end of a row of grape vines on vineyards to act as early warning signs of mold or mildew.
0w0GM TIL that in Japan, some 7.53 million computers at offices and local governments and 6.38 million at households were still using Windows 7 as of January 2020, comprising around 20 percent of all active Windows computers in the country
j6JGv TIL there's a monument in Kissimmee, Florida composed of 1,500 objects from all over the world, including the artist's remains