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TIL Christopher Walken manages to insert a little dance number into nearly all of his roles, no matter how small, scripted or not.

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X0w0r TIL while sailing from Tahiti to San Diego, Tami Oldham Ashford & her fiancé's boat temporarily capsized when they got caught in a hurricane. Tami got knocked out & woke up 27 hours later with her fiancé missing. Over the next 41 days, she used a sextant & a watch to navigate 1.5K miles to Hawaii.
OGx96 TIL of Dr. Marijuana Pepsi Vandyck. She has a PHD in in Leadership for the Advancement of Learning and Service in Higher Education. Her Dissertation was about uncommon black names.
PYeRJ TIL one of New York’s first crime bosses was a Prussian immigrant known as Mother Mandelbaum. She built up a criminal empire worth millions, ran a school to teach kids how to become successful pickpockets and thieves, and functioned as one most prominent hostesses for New York’s high society.
ZyOB TIL 171 people have vanished off Cruise liners in the last decade.
xVjg5 TIL That in masonry, a "cornerstone" is the very first stone set as a reference point for all other stones, while a "keystone" in an arch is the very last stone put in place at the top to support the weight of every other stone.