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TIL - Jim Farley, CEO of Ford Motor Company, is Chris Farley’s cousin

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pjkb TIL In space, if unprotected pieces of metal touch each other, they stick together permanently.
yQDA8 TIL Glaucoma is almost always caused by too much pressure inside one or both eyes. People don’t typically experience symptoms until the optic nerve has already been damaged and glaucoma usually occurs later in life, but it can happen at any age
jNGAa TIL about the Roland MT80s, a boombox that played MIDI files from floppy discs. It also features a metronome to help people practice learning musical instruments. Also, Roland made these kind of machines up to late 2000s when they added an USB port.
M7OGa TIL: SPY, the S&P 500 ETF trust that virtually everyone invests in, is a legal trust that has 11 actual beneficiaries. They had no idea they were the beneficiaries, but when they die, SPY dissolves.
96MX TIL, Lucifer as a proper name was not originally in the book of Isaiah, as the word Lucifer is of latin origin which did not exist when Isaiah was written, and stems from a mistranslation in the King James Version of the bible. The original hebrew text may even be about a Babylonian king.