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TIL according to top addiction experts, “Giving your child a smartphone is like giving them a gram of cocaine”.

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x6EBb TIL Nichelle Nichols wanted to leave Star Trek for Broadway and informed the producer. That weekend, she met Martin Luther King who said she was a role model and Star Trek was the only show he watched his kids stay up to watch. She changed her mind, and when the producer learned why, he teared up
o5rL TIL - In an effort to solve the extremely high corruption rate problem, Georgia (the country) once fired it’s ENTIRE police force. It turned out that the police WERE the problem and the move actually worked, as the country’s corruption almost vanished in the following three months with no police.
GAelj Today I learned that one of the reasons Alien has such a diverse cast was because they wrote all their characters with no backstory before casting “The crew is unisex, and all parts are interchangeable for men or women.” - Ronald Shusset
VBlK4 TIL that when the USS Badger State sank, some sailors were lost by being attacked by albatrosses.
96GM TIL that in the film, “This is the End”, Michael Cera slapping Rihanna’s butt was real. Cera asked for Rihanna’s permission to actually slap her butt. She agreed, only if she was allowed to slap Cera back even harder in the face.