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TIL over 75% of Visually Impaired Americans are Unemployed

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woo86 TIL that Gene Roddenberry's original script for the first "Star Trek" movie contained a scene in which James T. Kirk has a fistfight with an alien who had assumed the image of Jesus Christ. Certain elements of this script did eventually show up in "Star Trek: The Motion Picture"—but most did not.
KJY9 TIL that German journalists have a word, “widow shaking” for the practice of aggressively getting sob story material from relatives of disaster or crime victims.
6E77Y TIL that there is a 'copyleft', distinguished from copyright, is the practice of offering people the right to freely distribute copies and modified versions of a work with the stipulation that the same rights be preserved in derivative works created later.
R4A7 TIL in ancient Mesopotamia the Code of Hammurabi dictated that tavern owners, usually women, who watered down wine be sentenced to death by drowning.
oRn9o TIL the Buffalo Creek disaster killed 125 people and left 4,000 people homeless when a Pittston Coal Company mine runoff dam broke in West Virginia.