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TIL Gary Oldman is younger than Gary Numan

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b6DKa TIL the 2nd fastest manmade object is a manhole cover that was shot to space by a nuclear bomb at 41mi/s (147,600mph) in 1957
XEA4P TIL that the Christmas Number One Single in the UK in 2009 was Rage Against the Machine's - Killing In The Name due to a campaign launched to protest against Simon Cowell and The X Factor.
pY18p TIL that Frank Herbert’s 1965 sci-fi book, Dune, was largely inspired by his research on how ecologists intervened to protect homes and automobiles from the blowing sands of the sand dunes in Oregon.
awb1J TIL Stalin’s head of Poisons’ Laboratory, who spent years trying to find an undetectable poison leading to death by cardiac failure, died himself of a cardiac failure after reminding Krushchev how they took part together to a political assassination
mxk4o TIL about the illusory truth effect: the tendency to believe false information to be correct after repeated exposure. A repeated statement is easier to process than a new, unrepeated statement, which leads people to think that the repeated one is more truthful.