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TIL while living in a French village in the 1950s, Irish playwright Samuel Beckett sometimes drove local children to school, including a young Andre the Giant and two bonded over their love of cricket, with Andre later recalling that the two rarely talked about anything else.

MepOW TIL the wreck and artifacts of the Titanic are owned by RMS Titanic, Inc., formed in 1992 as a subsidiary of the same company that owns the popular "Bodies" traveling exhibition. The parent company filed for bankruptcy in 2018.
8eRKG TIL about the Public Resource License of Scientific Advancement | Oxford | Released in 2021 to prevent universities from patenting student inventions, corps from patenting life/meds, and allows for any concept or work to be protected from WIPO so all humans can use freely; built from corp. law.
1a1d TIL that when someone tickles you, the laughter is a panic response. That’s why you can’t tickle yourself, as your body never senses any real danger.
JVKl TIL: On Nixon’s Inauguration Day, LBJ pulled out a cigarette—his first since his heart attack. One of his daughters pulled it out of his mouth saying “Daddy, what are you doing? You’re going to kill yourself.” He replied, “I’ve now raised you girls. I’ve now been President. Now it’s my time!”.
6E00l TIL the Sovient Union developed a nuclear weapon so power that not even they were willing to test it at full capacity. The Tsar Bomba was the largest nuclear bomb ever tested in the earth's atmosphere, having a mushroom cloud spanning over 40 miles (64km) and a yield of 57 million tons of TNT.