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TIL Patrick Stewart is a public advocate for “assisted suicide”

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VMpLD TIL most avocados are descended from one tree grown by a Milwaukee postman in 1926
7rnn7 TIL the guy who invented annoying password rules (must use upper case, lower case, #s, special characters, etc) realizes his rules aren't helpful and has apologized to everyone for wasting our time
mx6RO TIL in 1971, astronaut Alan Shepard hit 2 golf balls on the moon - he hit the first one into a crater, and claimed to have smashed the second one "miles and miles and miles". However, recent research has shown that the first ball travelled 24 yards (22 m), and the second ball only 40 yards (37 m)
Z88OD TIL that most lizards and frogs have a third eye.
OoPG7 TIL that when Robin Williams auditioned for the part of Mork, an extraterrestrial from the planet Ork, Williams sat on his head when offered a chair. He was hired on the spot, the producer later commenting “Williams was the only alien who auditioned for the role.”