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TIL Steven Spielberg's daughter is an adult-film actress.

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wdbJ TIL When his boat sank off the Jamaican coast, Chris Blackwell - the producer who first discovered Bob Marley - was found near-death by some Rasta fishermen. They nursed him back to full health, forming a bond with their culture that became the basis for his famous investment in the island’s music.
78lQp TIL that Lucretia Garfield, widow of murdered U.S. president James A. Garfield, effectively established the first presidential library by overseeing the construction of a library on her property, to house all of her husband's books and presidential documents.
VMpm8 TIL about Chess960 - a game created by Bobby Fischer which uses the same board and pieces of regular chess, but randomly shuffles the home row to prevent players from relying on memorized strategies and instead rely on their own creativity
E1l4W TIL Not only can you eat dandelions raw(or make a tea etc.), but that they are pretty nutritious and can even stimulate digestion / bile flow.
rNYVW TIL that the Large Hadron Collider had so many unusual failures that noted physicists submitted papers with the notion that its operation is so abhorrent that it was being sabotaged....by someone from the future.