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TIL that stuntman Ted White was nearly 60 when he played Jason in Friday The 13th The Final Chapter. White requested not to be credited on screen for the role, because he didn’t like the way that the young actors and actresses were treated during production.

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6kj7 TIL that after George H.W. Bush, a Naval Aviator, was shot down and rescued by a submarine in WWII, he lived aboard that submarine for a month, assisting in the rescue of other aviators.
JMb1 TIL Rifaat al-Assad, uncle of current embattled Syrian president, flaunted to Thomas Freidman that he killed 38,000 people in the 1982 Hama Massacre. He currently lives in the UK, and since there was no War Crimes Tribunal three decades ago, and the Statute of Limitations, he cannot be prosecuted.
neVmo TIL the Statue of Liberty was damaged during WW1. During WW1, German agents bombed "Black Tom Island", a major U.S. munitions facility neighboring Liberty Island. The explosion destroyed $22,000,000 worth of military goods and damaged Lady Liberty's torch.
ONNX TIL Abraham Lincoln’s son Robert was present or near for the Assassinations of three America presidents (his father, Garfield and McKinley). He once refused a presidential invitation saying “I’m not going… because there is a certain fatality about presidential functions when I am present”
WNJ9 TIL there is an adapter for a computer mouse to help people who have hand tremors use computers more easily.