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TIL my uncle was my dad

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9wre7 TIL these days. Today I learned the letter B comes after A
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KOog9 TIL Comedian Drew Carey, after getting kicked out from University for being too bad at academics, went on to become a Sergeant in the United States Marine Corps.
v1a17 TIL when Stanley Kubrick made "The Killing", a 1956 noir heist film, the studio demanded he add in a narrator to explain the nonlinear order of events so the audience wouldn't get confused. Kubrick eventually added the narration which gave the audience inaccurate times to confuse them further.
OGk16 TIL that the new controls for the periscope in the class of most advanced nuclear attack submarine ever, the Navy used what it calls COTS (Civilian Off The Shelf) technology… in this case, an Xbox 360 controller.