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TIL the first person diagnosed with autism is still alive and living in Mississippi.

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loPy5 TIL Alexander Hamilton was only 18 when the American Revolution began
aB7b TIL that three of the actors who played Nazis on the WWII sitcom “Hogan’s Heroes” were German Jews who had escaped from Nazi Germany. Two of them spent time in concentration camps, and another French Jewish actor also spent time in a camp.
Yd9B TIL a Chinese family refused to sell their house to the goverment to build a highway, so the government road was built right up to their walls.
v14v7 TIL that a NYC man was exonerated and released, after being held in jail for transporting child pornography, when pornstar Lupe Fuentes flew from spain to appear at his trial with her ID and passport proving her age.
nWn7G TIL that while filming The Exorcist, Linda Blair was rigged to a mechanical bed that shook her so violently she fractured her spine. The shot was used in the final film, and her screams of pain were real.