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TIL Big Pete from The Adventures of Pete and Pete retired from acting in 2013 and now works as an electrician on film and television

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ADb6o TIL in USA, picking up an eagle feather that you found can end you up in jail with thousands of dollars in fines
4Xa0R TIL that neutron radiation from deuterium nuclear fusion can be exploited by breeding more deuterium from ordinary hydrogen.
pYP9N TIL of Ezzard Charles who is the only boxer to have lasted the full 15 rounds against Rocky Marciano. Charles who had killed an opponent earlier in his career, would also give Marciano trouble in their rematch and split Rocky’s nose in half, before Rocky managed to KO Charles at the last minute.
GYLNj TIL that indigenous people in Australia were systematically massacred well into the 1900s. The last massacre, by the Western Australian police, took place in 1926
7rg4x TIL Covert consciousness "is consciousness that cannot be detected by bedside examination. Studies . . . suggest that approximately 10 percent of those believed to be in a vegetative state or a low-level minimally conscious state . . . can actually follow commands during functional MRI or EEG tests"