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TIL Eminem is an Oscar winner

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pXDZ TIL Howie Mandel was expelled from his high school for impersonating a member of the school board and signing a construction contract to make an addition to his school.
b9JoE TIL there is a radio station in New Orleans for the blind. Volunteers every day read the local newspaper on the air, along best-sellers, grocery ads, stories for kids, mysteries, the Wall Street Journal, young adult novels and much more.
4XRAo TIL about MARAUDER, a real plasma cannon developed by the United States Air Force in 1993. The device could fire a ring of plasma with the force of 5 pounds of TNT. Impact effects included a high temperature explosion with x-ray radiation and EMP.
GYNwJ TIL that in 1988 the Australian Parliament "borrowed" the original copy of the Australian Constitution from Britain (it was originally a British Act of Parliament) and simply never gave it back.
v1lj4 TIL that in 2007, a group of researchers tried treating Arachnophobia without the use of any spiders, but by showing arachnophobes images with spider-like features. After the treatment, some test subjects were comfortable petting a tarantula in a terrarium.