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TIL that the character Mark from Tommy Wiseau's "The Room" is named after Matt Damon, who Tommy believed was named Mark Damon

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6E5NY TIL In 1982, a lady by the name of Deborah Mathers sued Dort Elementary School because her 9-year-old son Marshall was bullied and beaten so severely that he suffered several injuries, including a cerebral concussion, repetitive loss of vision and hearing, and other such ailments.
R5MGQ TIL that satellites in geosynchronous orbit generally retain a spacing of at least 73 km's from one another.
eKMJ TIL that due to climate change, the island nation of Kiribati is rapidly sinking into the ocean. The Government has already started buying land in other countries for its people, and is urging citizens to evacuate.
6EN9Z TIL Bayer sold HIV and Hepatitis C contaminated blood products that caused up to 10,000 people in U.S.A alone to contract HIV. After they found out they pulled it off the shelves in the U.S. and sold it to countries in Asia and Latin America so they wouldn't lose money from it.
xV0k1 TIL that Russian space crew of the ISS are called Cosmonauts. While the space crew of USA, Europe, Canada and Japan are called Astronauts.