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TIL, that in many states it is perfectly legal to refuse to hire someone because they are too ugly, fat, skinny or short.

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j6wkN TIL that authorship of the Christian poem “Footprints” is contested, is claimed by at least a dozen people, and has been the subject of lawsuits.
9YbLr TIL: Former member of Blink-182, Tom DeLonge, has signed a research agreement with the Army to study "inertial mass reduction, mechanical/structural meta materials, electromagnetic meta material wave guides, quantum physics, quantum communications, and beamed energy propulsion"
b6o60 TIL that special effects had to be employed in The Last Waltz, Martin Scorsese's film of The Band's farewell concert, due to a visible amount of cocaine being present on Neil Young's nose during his performance.
rRvpe TIL when the Seinfeld finale originally aired on NBC, TV Land paid tribute by not programming any shows opposite it, instead showing an image of a closed office door with hand written notes that said, "We're TV Fans so... we're watching the last episode of Seinfeld. Will return at 10pm et, 7pm pt".
V8oZ TIL in 1982 a Los Angeles man named Larry Walters used a lawn chair and weather balloons to ascend to 15,000ft above ground. On the way up, he lost both his glasses and his bb gun, which he planned to use to shoot balloons to descend. He caused a 20min power outage, and was fined $1500.