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TIL The real Frank Abegnale Jr. made a cameo in “Catch Me If You Can” as the French police officer who takes Leo DiCaprio into custody.

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YpDjd TIL that before the start of the football season, an MIT student trained pigeons near the Harvard football stadium to respond to whistles as a prank. When the whistle was blown to begin the Harvard-Yale opening game, the field was overrun by the birds.
4k4mJ TIL of the concept of a Savior Sibling, a child who is conceived in order to provide a stem cell transplant to a sibling that is affected with a fatal disease
j6VbN TIL contenders for the symbol now known as "interrobang" (‽) included "exclamaquest," "QuizDing," "rhet," and "exclarotive."
mkwo TIL the scene in The Shawshank Redemption where Morgan Freeman is pitching a baseball took 9 hours to shoot. He pitched it for the entire 9 hours without a single word of complaint and showed up for work the next day with his arm in a sling.
ar7b TIL in Chinese and Japanese, diabetes translates literally to “sugar pee sickness”.