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TIL that Frank Abagnale Jr, the subject of the Steven Spielberg movie Catch Me If You Can starring Leo DiCaprio, may have falsified the main details and scams in the movie as he was in prison from age 17-20 in NY when most of these scams were to have taken place. Making the movie his biggest scam.

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8eKJ4 TIL there's a radiation-eating fungus growing in the abandoned vats of Chernobyl
MPOA TIL US Representative Hank Johnson (D-GA) believed that the island of Guam would tip over by placing a military base there.
9wwpB TIL the Boeing 747 can carry an extra engine on its wing. Airlines used to use this capability regularly, when engines were less reliable, to deliver replacements to their stranded planes.
Mevnb TIL That breast implants have a serial number so that they can be tracked to monitor a patient's long-term safety.
Z8Epo TIL Hollywood's current obsession with remakes won't include Back to the Future, says director Robert Zemeckis, at least not while he's alive -- and if he has his way, not when he's dead either. Adding that it "can’t happen until both Bob [Gale] and I are dead." Gale was co-writer on all three films