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TIL Clint Eastwood has an “undetermined” number of children. At least 7 with 5 different women.

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0dmX5 TIL That one of the two Vice Presidents to resign was Spiro Agnew, who was VP under Richard Nixon, the only President to resign.
5YPXR TIL: That in 2014, the US Army sent 14,000 conscription letters to men born in the 1800s because of a Y2K-like bug.
BRXd TIL in 1983, North Korea tried to assassinate the President of South Korea with explosives. One of the assassins tried to kill himself with a grenade, failed, and became Burma’s longest serving prisoner.
kMkE TIL that a Russian pilot went against regulations and let his 16 year old son sit at the controls of the plane. His son accidentally disabled the autopilot, the plane then crashed and killed all on board.
awEYM TIL that time of flight (ToF) sensors in our modern smartphones actually bounce a signal off the object in front of it and record how long the signal takes to return to the sensor in order to measure distance, kind of like radar