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TIL Jon Heder only made $1,000 for his role in Napoleon Dynamite.

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XjBE TIL one can predict with 95% accuracy whether a person politically leans left or right based on different brain responses to seeing something “disgusting”
wMeW TIL that the US Navy used the moon as the first “relay” satellite (i.e. sending signals from ship to moon to land and vice versa)
exZ5 TIL that when Martin Scorsese read the book Wiseguy, which he would eventually adapt into the classic mob film Goodfellas, he called author Nicholas Pileggi and said, “I’ve been waiting for this book my entire life” to which Pileggi replied “I’ve been waiting for this phone call my entire life.”
x6XVB TIL that NASA is still paying Space Shuttle landing fees 11 years after the program ended.
rNMLW TIL The Espionage Act of 1917 allows the U.S government to forbid a whistleblower to state his motives to a jury - including when the motives serve the public.