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TIL Patrick Stewart will be running the Olympic torch through my home town.

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dDxJZ TIL that legendary film director Francis Ford Coppola, director of cinematic greats The Godfather (1972) and Apocalypse Now (1979), also directed the critically panned family comedy, Jack (1996), about a boy trapped in a rapidly aging body, starring Robin Williams.
NQw8 TIL that airlines don’t pay tax on fuel
QNWO6 TIL about the 1977 Washington DC hostage taking incident, where a slinter group of the Nation of Islam stormed city hall, a Jewish center, and as Islamic center. They took 149 hostages, two of whom were killed, and demanded the cancellation of a movie about the family of Mohammad.
b9roN TIL 17-yr-old Wolf Cukier found a new planet 3 days into a summer NASA internship. From space telescope data, he detected something blocking starlight, which was the shadow from a planet about 6.9 times larger than Earth. He doesn't get to name the planet, but he got a discount on a NASA jacket.
NpGe TIL the first person to climb the exterior of the Sear’s Tower did so using suction cups and while wearing a homemade Spiderman suit