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TIL that Angelina Jolie, Nicholas Cage, Richard Dreyfuss, Lenny Kravitz, David Schwimmer, Jonathan Silverman, Corben Bernsen, Michael Klesic, and the lady who does the voice of Marge Simpson ALL went to the same High School.

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BrZ1y TIL George Lucas's Star Wars pioneered the idea of omitting opening credits, a move that cost him $250,000 in fines.
P0Pg TIL Hewlett and Packard tossed a coin to decide whether the company would be called Hewlett-Packard or Packard-Hewlett. Packard won the toss and put Hewlett’s name first.
ZG4Q TIL there’s a boiling lake so hot that the centre has never been reached, and therefore the maximum depth and temperature are unknown.
m1vYP TIL that if South Korea enters a state of war, its army becomes subordinated to a US Army general from the Combined Forces Command, not the President or another Korean.
x6pOg TIL of Project Artichoke which was a mind control program from the intelligence divisions of the Army, Navy, Air Force and FBI. The goal was to determine if someone could involuntarily be made to perform an act of assassination. It also studied forced addiction to morphine, hypnosis, and amnesia.