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TIL while in University mathematician George Dantzig solved two famous mathematical problems mistaking them for homework

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XYjX TIL that the act of Kinetic Bombardment (firing large metal rods from a satellite into the Earth’s surface at terminal velocity as a weapon) remains legal
DXJj TIL Engineers have already managed to design a machine that can make a better version of itself. In a simple test, they couldn’t even understand how the final iteration worked.
nWVQB TIL Gatorade + Beer was sold as Hop’n Gator, in the 70’s.
Yp7Yr TIL: In 2004 a 13yo girl was walking to school but was shot and wounded at a distance by IDF soldiers. As she cowered behind a rock an Israeli captain went up to her and emptied 17 bullets from his rifle into her at point blank range. The captain was exonerated and later promoted to a Major.
7rG7O TIL that the finnish language did not have a written form before the mid-16th century, when it was created essentially by one man, Mikael Agricola, who wanted to translate the bible from latin to his native finnish