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TIL that audio experts could not tell the difference between $100 Monster speaker cables and cables made from soldering together old coat hangers

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18Vr TIL of The Grandmaster Experiment: Man finds wife based on her committal to creating children with the sole purpose of training them to become geniuses. He succeeds and has 3 daughters - all of which became Chess Grandmasters and the first women to achieve such status.
6ENJ7 TIL that terminally ill patients in the US may choose to be treated with experimental drugs only passing minimal testing, as covered by the "Right-to-try-Law".
919Q TIL that the majority of computers do not measure time in hours or days but instead use “Unix Time” which is the exact number of seconds that have passed since January 1st 1970. The current Unix time is 1467042820.
mxm5P TIL that in 2011, a student at the Louisiana State University submitted their master's thesis on internet lolcat speech, titled "I Can Has Thesis? A Linguistic Analysis of Lolspeak."
oPm8 TIL that the FBI warning in the movie Fight Club was actually a message to the audience from a character in the movie, Tyler Durden.