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TIL Legendary baseball player Ted Williams was future Astronaut John Glenn's Wingman during the Korean War

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E1AEp TIL Sadly, Margot Kidder, who played Lois Lane in Superman '78, committed suicide with drugs and alcohol in May of 2018. Anthony Bourdain and Kate Spade died by suicide in June 2018, but Kidder's death was not ruled suicide until August.
O4R7 TIL Soap Lake, Washington USA has spent the last 12 years planning a 60 foot Lava Lamp with lasers that you can walk into.
oBYar TIL that J.J. Thomson won the Nobel in Physics in 1906 when he showed electrons were particles. His son G. P. Thomson won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1937 for showing that electrons are waves.
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