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TIL: Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell wrote a secret memo detailing the duty of judges to protect American business executives. "One does not exaggerate to say that, in terms of political influence that the American business executive is truly the “forgotten man.”

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Y76lx TIL (from a YouTube video from The Paint Explainer) Warnock's dilemma is the explication of why there is no sure way to understand why nobody comments on community post you made.
xV1lw TIL that Oscar Wilde and Arthur Conan Doyle attended a dinner party held by an editor looking for content. They each promised to contribute to his magazine. The results of that evening? The Picture of Dorian Gray and the second, franchise-cementing Sherlock Holmes novel The Sign of Four.
jdpj TIL there’s an experimental project in Sweden where volunteers can sign up to receive a text message if there is a heart attack within (500m), so they can perform CPR before an ambulance arrives. 9600 people have signed up as of October, 2013.
J11vv TIL that The Osmonds originally formed, in part, to raise money to buy hearing aids for their deaf brothers Tom and Virl.
loORV TIL: The voice of Toy Story's Woody (voiced by Tom Hanks in the films) in video games and commercials belongs to Hanks' younger brother Jim. Apart from this, Jim is in a few running scenes as Tom's character in Forrest Gump, and he was also Tom's stunt double in 2011's Larry Crowne.