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TIL that Tom Morello once worked as a stripper

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165WD TIL that there are more possible iterations of a game of chess than there are atoms in the observable universe
4XXkw TIL that Thad Roberts, an intern at NASA, stole roughly $21 million worth of moon rocks from NASA with the aid of his girlfriend. He loaded a 600 pound safe containing ~101 grams of samples and wheeled it out of the complex, destroying 30 years of the chief scientist’s research in the process.
v17nr TIL that the color “isabelline,” a yellowish-white, may have been named after Isabella I of Castile swore not to change her shift until the siege of Granada was over, expecting a quick victory; the siege took 8 months
BQ4e TIL that in California, they use prison labor to fight forest fires
5knQ TIL: WWII aircraft designers had selection bias by analyzing returning planes to increase armor on the damaged areas. Abraham Wald pointed the craft didn’t need the armor to survive, and proposed armor on the undamaged sections as hits to these areas must have destroyed the craft not returning.