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TIL after wheelchair bound Rapper MF Grimm was sentenced to life he paid a one-day bail of $100,000, he then recording an entire album in those twenty-four hours of freedom.

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nWlj7 TIL Often truncated, Oppenheimer's fuller quote was "I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita; Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and, to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says, 'Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.'"
GjWQ TIL: In 2014 The International Journal of Advanced Computer Technology accepted an article whose content was “Get me off your fucking mailing list.” repeated for ten pages.
xDkw TIL that LASIK eye surgery uses the same algorithm NASA created to dock space shuttles in order to properly align the laser to the eye.
ADoGd TIL at 107 years old, the original "man in the monster suit" who played Godzilla is still alive.
N7ExE TIL the deepest swimming pool in the world is the "Y-40 Deep Joy" in Italy. A staggering 130ft (40m) at it's deepest point, equivalent to the height of a 14 storey building, holding 4300 cubic meters of water! There's even a glass tunnel for spectators running a couple of meters below the surface.