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TIL 80s film fixture actress Jami Gertz is currently part owner of the Atlanta Hawks

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xVJJ1 TIL about Matthew Buchinger who was born with no hands or feet and stood 29 inches tall. He became a remarkable artist, magician, calligrapher and was a marksman with a pistol. He was also married 4 times, and had 14 children by 8 different women.
VmRp TIL due to his cameos in the Marvel movies, Stan Lee is the 4th highest grossing actor of all time.
QOA6 TIL in 1846 during the Mexican-american war, a group formed called “St. Patrick’s Battalion” that consisted of Irish Catholics. They faced discrimination in the US, so they switched to fight for Mexico.
OGEEY TIL Cerveza Chango (Chango Beer) is a fictional beer brand that shows up in the movies Desperado, From Dusk till Dawn and Sin City all directed by Robert Rodriguez.
4ov5 TIL that in 1962, special, hi-tech locks were added to all U.S. nuclear missiles that would prevent launch without a secret, unique launch code. However, military officials quietly circumvented this safeguard by setting every locK to “00000000”. The codes remained unchanged until 1977.