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TIL the final role of Orson Welles’ career came as a Voice Over actor in the 1986 film, Transformers: The Movie.

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Brl0r TIL about PayPal accidentally crediting $93 quadrillion to a man's PayPal account, which is an amount 1000 times the planet's entire GDP
pgGb TIL In 1970 John Lennon paid all of the fines for 96 people who had been arrested for protesting against the apartheid South Africa rugby team playing in Britain.
lowVa TIL that there are estimated to be around 36 active communicating intelligent civilizations in our galaxy according to a research team from the University of Nottingham, UK.
l7BN TIL SpaceX launched a wheel of cheese into orbit to honor Monty Python.
eyJJ TIL that press sensationalism influenced the 1982 conviction of an Australian woman for murdering her baby, and after 6 years in prison she was totally exonerated, yet her plaintive “a dingo ate my baby” became joke fodder among American comedians.