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TIL in order to look strung out Charlie sheen stayed up for 2 days straight to achieve his role in Ferris bueller’s day off

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YpWwB TIL actor Paul Giamatti’s father Angelo Giamatti was a Yale University professor and then Yale University president. He was also the 7th (and shortest-tenured) commissioner of the MLB, dying of a heart attack at 51
p58N TIL That SR-71 pilots sometimes came from bomber aircraft because nobody else had experience in long supersonic flights. A crew taken from a B-58 Hustler ended up setting a world record for longest supersonic flight after flying the SR-71 for over 10 hours… over 15,000 miles. Nonstop.
nekRb TIL that the word radar is actually an acronym for "radio detection and ranging."
GALWj TIL that there was a person known as Kamehameha the Great who was the conqueror and first ruler of the Kingdom of Hawaii, and he also is the namesake of Goku's signature move from anime Dragon Ball
egY6 TIL that a man tried to cash a cheque he got in some junk mail for $95,000 and the bank did it!