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TIL that Danny Glover is the great great grandson of Harriet Tubman

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P1Ogw TIL that before the atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima, a B29 weather reconnaissance plane called Straight Flush flew over the city to determine if conditions were favourable. Its pilot, Claude Eatherly later expressed remorse, received psychiatric hospitalisation, and engaged in anti-nuclear activism.
OGjDL TIL not only is gold edible, it's also kosher.
5VJbk TIL That there's a movie none of us will live to see. Set to be released in 2115, the film "100 years" was written by John Malcovich and directed by Robert Rodriguez back in 2015.
neeLY TIL that Robert Mericle was only sentenced for one year the Kids for Cash Scandal
pYr88 TIL about Nova Scotia’s remote Sable Island. The Canadian Government has planted 70,000 trees on the 26 mile long sand bar and one has survived: a scrubby pine that is decorated for Christmas every year.