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TIL the US government can force you to accept immunity from prosecution

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9YOo7 TIL Melora Hardin (Jan from the Office) was briefly cast as Jennifer, Marty’s girlfriend, in Back to the Future.
kO7dW TIL when Tay Zonday made the "Chocolate Rain" video, he was doing PhD studies at the University of Minnesota in theater history & social change. He said: "I wrote 'Chocolate Rain' as a serious social commentary, but people re-sang the song with their own lyrics, often for the sake of comedy."
yQJ5V TIL that New Jersey's law on reckless endangerment explicitly bans manufacturing or selling "a golf ball containing acid or corrosive fluid substance."
69WJ TIL a man beat his wife to death with a Bible after an end of the world prediction failed to come true in 2004. And thousands of people believe that the world will end today, Sunday October 21st, 2012.
e0OZE Today I learned that auto makers have been adding fake engine noises to their car speaker systems, or even adding entirely separate speaker systems to increase the rumble and depth of the sound of engines to compensate for modern efficiency resulting in less oomph. It’s called a Soundaktor.