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TIL Johnny Depp once showed up at a school in full Jack Sparrow costume in response to a 9-year-old girl’s request for his help in staging a mutiny against the teachers.

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0wkj TIL the world’s oldest still-active gymnast (Johanna Quast) is 86 years old – and still demonstrates at a competitive level
dDvDK TIL that Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup was a patent medicine marketed to calm small children which contained a dangerous amount of morphine and alcohol.
dDEL8 TIL that “The Prince”, the political Treatise which originated the concepts of Machiavellianism, is believed by some to be a satire, as it contradicts Machiavelli’s other writings.
R5Dd6 TIL due to the failure of the Boeing 2707, a Concorde competitor, and a downturn in general aviation in the 1970s, Boeing fired 60,000 employees. So many people left Seattle that a billboard was placed near the airport that read "Will the last person leaving Seattle turn out the lights?"
D1r9Y TIL "The Present" begins January 1st, 1950. For radiocarbon dating, identifying anything after this date is unreliable due to the skewering of Carbon-12 and Carbon-14 that detonating nuclear devices in our atmosphere has caused.