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TIL Terry Kiser who played Bernie Lomax in "Weekend at Bernie's" is still alive and turns 86 today.

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69epX TIL that the iconic Rosa Parks bus photo was staged by the UPI after her victory in the Supreme Court. The man behind her is UPI reporter Nicholas Chriss.
16kZX TIL the 2011 PlayStation Network outage, where hackers seized the personal information of 77m users, was partially due to Sony removing Linux support from the PlayStation 3.
9bkm TIL there is no such thing as a true one-way mirror; they are equally as reflective on each side, but one room is kept much darker than the other room, thus preventing the lighter room from seeing through it.
xkyk TIL British troops used over 72 million amphetamine tablets during WWII
YW9B TIL that after their only son died at the age of 15, Leland Stanford founded Stanford University and told his wife that “the children of California shall be our children.”