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TIL Samuel L. Jackson was mentored in his early career by Morgan Freeman

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nWJkr TIL In 1835 The New York Sun published a series of articles claiming that there were bat-like humanoids living on the moon. The stories were entirely fictional, but they fooled some readers at the time.
wLROM TIL when SkyLab disintegrated over a West Australian town, NASA received a $400 ticket for littering from the rural town that received the debris. A radio DJ raised the funds to pay the ticket in the 90s.
69v7X TIL that there was an Aladdin 2
xRkB TIL Monopoly was originally meant to teach people about the evils of capitalism.
R7LM4 TIL of the Sewee, a Native American tribe who in 1670 decided to build a navy and sail en masse to England. Their canoes were swamped and survivors sold to slavery in the West Indies, wiping out the tribe.