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TIL Robert Altman's 14-year-old son, Michael, wrote the lyrics to "Suicide is Painless" for his dad's movie MAS*H. When the movie was turned into a TV show, the song was used as the theme of the series and he earned over $1 million in royalties.

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ep7BJ TIL about Georgia “Tiny” Broadwick, the first woman to parachute from an airplane and the first person to manually deploy a parachute after a malfunction.
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x0nw TIL that Michael Jordan’s former personal assitant and one of his best friends is the limo driver who picked him up when he arrived for the first time in Chicago
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