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TIL a man hired assassins to kill his son’s WoW avatar to get him to stop playing

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N7WW6 TIL that Stephen Hawking used a single cheek muscle to communicate. A sensor attached to his glasses detected these movements which in turn moved a cursor on a screen that utilized predictive text. Much of this text was personalised to Hawking and was based on phrases he had previously used
awlGA TIL Harrison Ford tried to have a puppeteer on Return of the Jedi fired. They pretended to fire him, kept him on, and even brought him back for The Force Awakens
9YPv7 TIL of Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara, who signed transit visas in Lithuania for more than 6,000 Jews in 1940. He wrote visas for 18-20 hours every day, continuing to sign them through the window of a train and throw them into the crowd as he fled Lithuania.
wM66 TIL the Third Reich devised the idea of carrying the Olympic torch through a relay system
Y70od TIL Sparrow Force, a mostly Australian WW 2 unit, was stranded for 10 months on a Japanese-held island, fighting against 100-to-1 odds, with no radio for most of that time. A radio was improvised & sent, “Force intact. Still fighting. Badly need boots, quinine, money, and Tommy-gun ammunition.”