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TIL The band Foo Fighters was named after the term foo fighter which was used by Allied aircraft pilots in World War II to describe various UFOs or mysterious aerial phenomena seen in the skies over both the European and Pacific theaters of operations.

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8Lwb TIL Aristotle believed that the brain was just a minor organ for cooling the blood and heart and a place for the spirit to reside.
wo6J7 TIL about Passage du Gois in France, a road that connects the mainland to Noirmoutier Island and gets submerged by water twice a day, during high tide, for around 4 hours!
nW4Br TIL Wachovia Bank, a unit of Wells Fargo & Co, paid $160M in 2010 to settle drug money probe. The systematic failure by Wachovia to maintain effective anti-money laundering controls had led to more than $400B in unmonitored funds being channeled to accounts at the bank between 2004 & 2007.
OAkY TIL Diesel engines produce very little carbon monoxide and will not kill a person trying to commit suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning.
WAxY TIL That The US Beat China In A World Math Championship For The First Time In Twenty Years Last Year