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TIL Chris Rock was diagnosed late in life with a nonverbal learning disorder similar to Asperger's syndrome which makes it difficult to understand non-verbal cues and signals.

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gM9EX TIL the film U-571 caused issues in the UK. It depicted British sailors as American. The film depicts the capture of the first naval enigma machine. In reality, the US had not joined the war at this point. The US did not capture a naval enigma machine until long after the code had been broken.
nWkrr TIL: Kiyohime was Japanese folklore about a girl who fell in love with Anchin, a monk, he rejected her. She then got so angry while chasing him, she transformed into a dragon and melted him while he was hiding inside a bell. There are several theatrical versions in Japan dating back 1000 years.
QNN9 TIL that if sprinters move within 0.1 seconds of the firing of the gun, it’s still considered a false start, because it’s impossible for humans to react that quickly.
lABr TIL A plaque honoring Martin Luther King, Jr. mistakenly thanked his assassin, James Earl Ray, instead of actor James Earl Jones. When officials received their plaque they were horrified to discover that it bore an inscription thanking James Earl Ray for “keeping the dream alive”
5P68 TIL in 1952 due to unsual weather patterns, a large amount of smog from nearby Coal plants collected over London for a series of 4 days, killing an estimated 12,000 people