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TIL The film 'A Few Good Men' was inspired by a real life story. Aaron Sorkin's sister told him she signed up to work with the U. S. Navy JAG Corps and was defending a group of marines who nearly killed a fellow marine in a hazing ordered by a superior officer.

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GYxQ1 TIL that it's very problematic to make an accurate and/or precise measurement of something as seemingly mundane as coastlines, due to the Coastline Paradox. Although the actual measurement cannot be theoretically infinite, coastlines are practically immeasurable in terms of standardized consistency.
oRmvo TIL that on December 18,1983 when the NFL’s Baltimore Colts played their final game in Baltimore before relocating to Indianapolis (which they won 20-10 over the Houston Oilers) The visiting QB was Oliver Luck, whose son Andrew was taken number 1 overall by the Colts nearly 30 years later in 2012.
mxwMM TIL the woman in the 'woman yelling at the cat' meme was actually arguing with a group of people who were accusing her of making up her husband's abuse, who almost blinded her
DQLJg TIL that the reason names are rarely in the same order as the faces across a movie poster is because the name order is according to the billing order and contract-bound.
VMo90 TIL that in 1995 a Florida man buried 9 "unwanted" day-old puppies alive in a paper bag, in full view of their tethered mother. Mama dog broke free later and began frantically digging the ground and retrieving puppies, which luckily attracted the attention of a neighbor who phoned police.