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TIL that Christopher Lloyd had his first on screen kiss in “Back to the future 3” despite being an actor for almost twenty years before that.

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jYZa TIL there’s two U.S. states where the temperature has never surpassed 100 degrees F: Alaska and Hawaii.
yVXNJ TIL that when Jim Hendrix first performed in front of Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, and members of the Beatles and Rolling Stones, comments included “shit”, “Jesus”, and “damn”
V5MB TIL Paul McCartney had jets emit dry ice to remove clouds from the sky so that he could perform “Good Day Sunshine” in sunny weather.
m1YRv TIL about Straub v. BMT by Todd, an Indiana case that said that a parent can't bargain away child support even with a written pre-conception agreement. Justice DeBruler dissented, arguing that a promise by one parent to pay the other parent's child support share should be as binding as insurance.
awB1A TIL of the micromort, a unit of risk defined as one one-in-a-million chance of death. Travelling 10km on a bike, 400km in a car, and 10,000km via jet all expose you to 1 μmt of risk. Simply existing at age 90 exposes you to 300 μmt a day.