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TIL while watching Strange Days that Fatboy Slim’s “Right Here, Right Now” is a sample of one of Angela Bassett’ lines

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X70D TIL That in January of 1982 a plane struck the 14th street bridge in DC. Among the many heroes that day, Lenny Skutnik dove into the icy water to save a survivor, swam 30 feet to get her and carried her to the shore. Both survived
eplkD TIL Thomas Edison was so upset with his son’s ineptitude in business, that he paid him $35/wk to use a different name (Jr to then use Thomas Willard).
Z8RPv TIL That 200 years ago, Robert Gibbon Johnson ate a whole basket of tomatoes outside a courthouse to prove that they were safe to eat and not posionous!
kOvdB TIL Sunflower roots produce sugar, alcohol, and biofuel. "Sunroots" can be eaten by people and livestock. Sunroots are prebiotic with bioactive medicinal compounds demonstrating antifungal, antioxidant, and anticancer properties. They grow in drought, poor soil and resist pests, disease, and fungus.
VM6ZQ TIL of the book "Made in China 2025" the official plan of the People's Republic of China to takeover global advanced manufacturing by 2025, written in 2015