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TIL Silent film comedian Buster Keaton got his start in his father's vaudeville act at the age of 3. His act would be to goad his father into throwing him across the stage, and he became so good at falling that he rarely got bruises. He was eventually billed as "The Little Boy Who Can't Be Damaged."

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4Xd7R TIL about the "Grievance Studies affair" where three academics produced bogus papers to expose how lax academic journals had become. One paper that was accepted and published by the Journal Affilia included long excerpts from Hitlers Mein Kampf where the word "Jew" was replaced with "White Man".
N7ylE TIL Jack Black's older half brother, Neil Siegel, is a prolific computer scientist and engineer who has developed key systems for the US military and inventions that make GPS possible in our phones.
l710B TIL The British Post Office falsely prosecuted over 700 Postmasters for fraud and theft due to a faulty computer system
W76XX TIL that somebody wrote a fake scientific paper that consisted almost entirely of the phrase “get me off your fucking mailing list”.
7rQXr TIL in 2004 a football player got his wedding ring caught on a metal fence while celebrating a goal, ripping his finger off. He was then penalized with a yellow card for wasting time when officials were searching for his finger.