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TIL the actress who played Newt in Aliens never acted again after that movie. She turned down the Hollywood life and became an elementary school teacher instead

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gMkg9 TIL the Antikythera Shipwreck of the First Century BCE, discovered by Greek sponge divers, yielded artifacts including art, jewelry, a statue of Herakles, coins, but most importantly the Antikythera Mechanism, interlocking gears that computed the movements of the sun, the moon, and eclipse dates
XE9Pk TIL: prosecutors have absolute immunity for falsification of evidence and the coercion of witnesses
JZR1 TIL Linux 4.0’s codename is “Hurr durr I'ma sheep”
BYJr TIL When Michael Chrichton was in college, he conducted an experiment to expose an English professor who he believed was giving him abnormally low marks. Crichton submitted an essay by George Orwell under his own name. The paper was returned by his unwitting professor with a mark of “B−”.
W7R5B TIL Willie Nelson’s longtime drummer and best friend was a former pimp and gangster once named the ‘godfather of a bloody Fort Worth’