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TIL the actor who played Mcgruff the crime dog in the 90’s was convicted of possessing 1,000 marijuana plants, 27 weapons including a grenade launcher, and 9,000 rounds of ammo. He was caught by drug dogs in a traffic stop.

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jN47j TIL that Harry Connick Jr.‘s mother-in-law, Glenna Goodacre, was a famous sculptor who designed the Vietnam Women’s Memorial in Washington DC, the Irish Memorial in Philadelphia, and the Sacagawea dollar.
5VWn TIL one of the earliest pioneers in parachuting was a woman named Jeanne Geneviève Labrosse, who jumped out of a perfectly good hydrogen balloon in 1799 and descended to safety 900 meters below.
d8wJB TIL about psychosocial dwarfism, a condition where a child can stop growing due to an extremely stressful environment. It can cause the body to completely stop growing but is generally temporary; regular growth will resume when the source of stress is removed.
Oo8d6 TIL the scientific adviser to the 2014 film Interstellar spent two weeks talking Christopher Nolan out of having a character travelling faster than the speed of light, as it defies the laws of physics
Me9r8 [TIL] Microbiologists recreated a 1,000-year-old onion and garlic eye remedy which kills staphylococcus aureus, also known as MRSA.