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TIL about schizophrenic numbers, which are irrational numbers that display similarities to rational numbers.

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WJV9 TIL Many investigators believed that some if not all the crew of The Challenger disaster survived the explosion unharmed and were conscious for the full 2 minutes 45 seconds it took for the Crew Cabin to return to Earth, before being killed by collision force when the module hit the sea.
M7R87 TIL about Oliver Sipple a man who stopped an assasination attempt on US president Gerald Ford in 1975, however the news also told that this man was gay and because of that it generated great controversy, even so that the president only wrote a note thanking him and his family disowned him.
VMMpQ TIL the federal government had a program called Operation Plowshare that tested the use of atomic bombs to frack for natural gas.
b6joN TIL VitaminD3 will solve almost 90% of physical and mental issues! more than just a "bone vitamin"—it’s a hormonal powerhouse that threatened the pharmaceutical and medical industries by serving the cure for various ailments.
E1enP TIL that Detroit Tigers pitcher Joel Zumaya had a sore wrist in the 2006 postseason from playing too much Guitar Hero. This was acknowledged in a credits message in the Xbox 360 version of Guitar Hero II: "No pitchers were harmed in the making of this game. Except for Joel Zumaya. He had it coming."