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TIL that Matt Patricia is the only rocket scientist coaching in the NFL. Before coaching, he was a working aeronautical engineer who graduated from RPI: a school whose fight song includes "sin", "cosine" and "tangent", as well as six digits of pi.

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xQYw TIL the FCC had a ban on TV/radio media releasing tornado warnings until 1954 when Harry Volkman broadcast the first televised tornado warning in Oklahoma City, due to his belief the ban was costing lives.
BGAy TIL that Sir Isaac Newton likely died an 84 year old virgin.
4XmxX TIL when former Bucks player John Henson visited a Milwaukee jewelry store in 2015 trying to buy a watch, the employees refused him service, locked the store and called the police on him, from which he was subjected to questioning
J1NWl TIL that contrary to popular belief, most people who are bitten suffer no serious damage, let alone death.
wg68 TIL that the idea of witches riding broomsticks originates in the Middle Age practice of women using broomsticks to apply psychedelic ointments to their vaginas