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TIL Scuba divers use Magna Doodles to pass notes underwater

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b9lVp TIL Boston Corbett, the man who killed John Wilkes Boothe, years earlier had castrated himself with scissors after reading a bible passage. He was thought to have gone insane from inhaling fumes while making hats, with symptoms that persisted his whole life
6bkX TIL that Space Jam is the highest-grossing basketball movie of all time.
NXjMN TIL “Men in Black” by Will Smith sampled Patrice Rushen’s “Forget Me Nots”.
j6JMj TIL In 2007, John Galvan and two others were serving a life sentence when he saw a MythBusters' episode "Hollywood on Trial." which debunks a cigarette igniting gasoline. In Chicago, 1986, John was forced to sign a false confession, saying that's how the fire started. They were exonerated in 2022.
R67 TIL the NAACP was created by Jews in 1909, and that it didn’t have a black president until 1975.