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TIL At age 10, Shia LaBeouf landed a hollywood agent by pretending to be his own manager and calling random agents in the yellow pages

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lovBA TIL The plane that dropped the atomic bomb cost more to develop than the bomb itself.
wLlKM TIL about Cargo cults a belief system based on the following of a more technologicallly advance society without understanding their culture or their technology. Most commonly associated with island people paying cult to people that stopped on their island.
Brnae TIL after Buddy Holly died at 22, he left enough music recorded that his record label could release new material from him for the next 10 years.
VMDl8 TIL of Margaret Corbin. When her husband went into battle in the American Revolution, she went along side him. When he was killed she took his post and was able to fire, clean and aim the cannon with great ease and speed.
8e9yP TIL about a successful professional fisherman born without legs or hands, and uses no prosthetics (video in comments)