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TIL Vin Diesel has in his contract for the Fast & Furious franchise that he can never loose a fight

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eY1k TIL That the phrase “Pull out all the stops” refers to using all the pipes of a pipe organ by pulling all the knobs (stops) that control which pipes are used.
5pER TIL that Abraham Lincoln’s son, Robert Lincoln, was present at three out of four U.S. presidential assassinations. When asked to attend a presidential function he declined by stating “there is a certain fatality about presidential functions when I am present.”
xJk1 TIL a 2012 study found that uninformed people are influenced more by subjective reporting: “If you want to reach a bigger audience — those less-informed — you need to inject as much opinion into your work as possible”
xVKvB TIL Today I learned there is a real national Dodgeball league and that they hold their championship in Las Vegas just like in the movie Dodgeball a true underdog story.
wo8Do TIL that TON 618, 18.2 billion light years from Earth, is one of the largest black holes in the universe. The gas cloud that surrounds it has a diameter of at least 100 kiloparsecs(330,000 light-years), twice the size of the Milky Way.