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TIL Michael Jackson wanted to do a Harry Potter musical but J.K. Rowling said no.

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ZpbER TIL that Nobel Prize winning physicist Chen-Ning Yang’s father-in-law was Du Yuming, a Kuomintang general who was later captured, re-educated as a war criminal and eventually became a senior official in the PRC.
4XmNX TIL in 1781, 142 slaves were thrown overboard from a slave ship. The crew claimed they were low on drinking water and had killed the slaves to save it-this claim was disputed. The slaves had been insured. The case brought major attention to abolition.
X0Oo6 TIL that by 1912, a typical electric car cost almost twice as much as a mass-produced gasoline Ford Model T.
1ane8 TIL that "Inemuri", in Japan the practice of napping in public, may occur in work, meetings or classes. Sleeping at work is considered a sign of dedication to the job, such that one has stayed up late doing work or worked to the point of complete exhaustion, and may therefore be excusable.
OoDX4 TIL that removing lead from gasoline is thought to be one of the big factors that lead to the drop in the violent crime rate in America in the 1990s