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TIL Flash Gordon retired from acting and now does corporate security and hostage extraction in Mexico

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woVkJ TIL that Laura Branigan's "Spanish Eddie" song is about a real person, an NYC gangster and then a city Youth Services Agency agent, who successfully organized and almost succeeded in establishing a truce between most of the city street gangs to reduce violence, and got shot while realizing the plan.
1ayvX TIL about the Eight Immortals, members of the Communist Party of China who held substantial power during the late 20th century. Their descendants possess extensive wealth, outrank and possess greater prestige than most party officials due to their lineage, and can overrule most party decisions.
XEOND TIL A computer programmer who was dismissed from his job wrote a computer program that deleted software critical to the company's operations and caused the loss of more than $10 million in sales and contracts.
yEM8 TIL that the Robert Frost poem “The Road Not Taken” AKA erroneously as “The Road Less Traveled” isn’t a salute to can-do individualism but rather a commentary on the self-deception we practice when constructing the story of our own lives - in other words, the two roads are interchangeable.
E1wJo TIL Mike May, who became blind at age 3, got his sight back after more than 40 years but still had no idea how to see after his operation. Even though his eyes now worked perfectly, the visual part of his brain was so underdeveloped that it could not make any sense of the information coming in.