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TIL that the disease “the bends” were discovered while workers on the Brooklyn bridge came up too quickly while working down in the caissons

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neWjo TIL that when NASA sent out the Voyager spacecrafts in 1977, two golden records were included aboard which contained images, coded diagrams and sounds — including a message from President Carter — that portrayed life and culture on Earth in case any intelligent alien life form found the spacecrafts.
wLvo1 TIL of Brian Molony, a compulsive gambler famous for embezzling millions to feed his gambling habit. Starting gambling from the age of 10, he embezzled 10 million dollars and lost almost 5 million dollars at Caesars Atlantic City. His life story is the basis of the movie Owning Mahowny.
yQWgV TIL That Dolly Parton almost lost her toes at the age of 7/8 when she jumped over a fence and landed on a mason jar. Her father and brothers held her down while her mother poured kerosene over the wound and sewed her toes back together.
lBZ1 TIL James Bond: Tomorrow Never Dies was the first movie whose production budget was completely paid for by product placement.
jNLPX TIL that Al “Scarface” Capone got his famous facial scars from saying “Honey, you got a nice ass and I mean that as a compliment, believe me" to a woman. He got knifed in the face and received eighty stitches for the remark because it offended her brother.