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TIL Eddie Murphy did SNL, 48 Hours, Trading Places, and Beverly Hills Cop all by the age of 23

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agko TIL Anderson Cooper, soon after graduating college, forged a press pass and gained entrance to Myanmar to meet with students fighting the Burmese government. He was ultimately able to sell his home-made news segments to Channel One, launching his journalism career.
gMEZb TIL of Ranald MacDonald, a Chinook/Scotsman from Oregon Country, who went to Japan in 1848 despite its strict isolationist policy. Risking death, he pretended to be shipwrecked & got captured. While imprisoned, the gov't sent 14 samurai to be his pupils, as he became Japan's first English teacher.
8eQNa TIL that there is a fudge factory in Missouri that goes by the name of Uranus. You can buy fudge in Uranus.
DQ5dv TIL with a "Constant acceleration" space ship, at 1G acceleration you could travel the diameter of the milkey way (105,000 Light years) in a short 12 years.
gVGy TIL the “Nigerian Prince” scam is deliberately crafted with an outlandish premise and using poor english, because by sending an email that repels all but the most gullible the scammer gets the most promising marks to self-select, reducing “false positive” responses and increasing profitability