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TIL Space Ghost Coast to Coast was the show that launched the late night television block we know today as Adult Swim on Cartoon Network.

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6E1GX TIL that Nazi Germany conceived of a weapon called the "Sun Gun", which would have been a giant mirror in outer space that used concentrated sunlight to destroy entire cities.
KOnY4 TIL that an estimated 25% of young adults in the U.S. have a fear of the slight pain caused by needles called trypanophobia, and that it may lead 16% of young adults in the U.S. to skip getting medical injections.
OY74 TIL that the spider that bites Tobey Magquire in ‘Spider-Man’ was chosen after a “spider Olympics,” and was then painted with body paint when time didn’t allow for a spider costume to be created
Z84JR TIL of the Tulsa Center of the Universe. An acoustic anomaly located in Oklahoma. When one stands in the center of the circle and makes a noise, that noise is echoed back several times louder than it was made, but no one standing outside the circle can hear a thing.
65Ql TIL there’s been a treaty that bans controlling the weather as a weapon of war since 1978.