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TIL Kevin Smith opened his home to Stan Lee after reports of elder abuse.

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p0X4 TIL Andre the Giant’s physique was due to acromegaly, a treatable (and often reversible) gland disease that causes constant secretion of growth hormone. Despite doctors and friends begging him to have surgery, he refused: “If this is the size that God wanted me to be, I’m going to be this size.”
o7YL TIL that when a young girl was invited to meet President Coolidge, someone made a bet against her claiming that it was impossible for the president to say more than two words to her. When the girl told the president about the bet, President Coolidge responded, “You lose.”
4XZ9a TIL about Jack Churchill, a soldier in WW2 that went into battle carrying a sword, a bow and arrows, and a bagpipe.
VBgDZ TIL it’s not a grain of sand that creates a pearl in an oyster, but rather a parasite
PYEyE TIL That in 1973 IBM offered its UPC bar code proposal to the grocery industry for free. The industry accepted a very close standard to their proposal. However, IBM also made the first technology capable of reading the bar codes, and made tons of money selling the equipment to grocery stores.