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TIL Morgan Freeman wears gold earrings based on an old sailors tradition. They were earrings in order to cover their burial in a forgein land

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Yn1W TIL, that Patrick Stewart was initially considered for the role of Data, and it took weeks of discussion with Robert Justman, Rick Berman, and the casting director to convince Roddenberry that Stewart was the one they had been looking for to sit in the Captain’s chair.
jNVea TIL about the Mathematician Fry Lewis Richardson who discovered that it is impossible to measure the length of coastlines in a meaningful manner. This so-called Coastline Paradox later led to the creation of the field of Fractal Geometry.
W7EAA TIL of British General Charles “No-flint” Grey. Grey defeated several American armies in stealth attacks, using his favoured tactic of having his men remove the flints from their muskets and attack enemies using their bayonets alone.
yVBwl TIL in 2006 a jury awarded $5.6m to the family of a man who had the shaft of a screwdriver implanted into his spine by a surgeon after the two titanium rods he planned to use were discovered missing during the surgery. The screwdriver snapped & after 3 more back surgeries, the man died 2 years later
x68L5 TIL about Garibaldi, an Italian general who led 1,000 volunteers in the unification of Italy, outnumbered 90 to 1 and commanding just a few stolen tugboats, he managed to land in Sicily, incite the people there to revolt and ultimately destroyed the state of Two Sicilies in less than 2 years.