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TIL Bill Nye “the science guy” got his break in entertainment by winning a steve martin lookalike contest.

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JY07m TIL about the "Lost Cause of the Confederacy" narrative --the force behind "heritage" statues all around the US. Pushed for by the "United Daughters of the Confederacy" as pseudo-history to preserve the name of their lost so they won't be historically branded as traitors.
xVrQ7 TIL Out of 3000 salmon eggs, only 5 or 6 will reach adulthood
64ow TIL that today is the 47th anniversary of Israel’s attack on the USS Liberty - 34 Americans were killed in the attack and another 174 were wounded. The ship, a $40-million dollar state-of-the-art signals intelligence platform was destroyed
8eNL8 TIL the Vatican City is the smallest country in the world with a population of 764 people
xVAGg TIL: Before we had man-made communications satellites, a technique called the "Moon bounce" was used to send long range radio signals. Radio waves were sent up from Earth, bounced off the Moon, and then back down to a receiver on Earth. The technique is still used by some amateur radio operators.