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TIL: On 5/25/2012, “Unabomber” Ted Kaczynski submitted his current information to the Harvard alumni association. Listing his eight life sentences as achievements, his current occupation as prisoner, and his current address as No. 04475-046, US Penitentiary-Max, P.O. Box 8500, Florence, CO 81226.

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D1EeD TIL when the Great Seal of the United States was redesigned/updated in 1885, a new reverse design was ordered but never used. The reverse seal (The Pyramid w/ All Seeing Eye - still used today) received an update but was rejected due to criticism of the design.
4Z5R TIL people in the Soviet Union were so terrified to be the first to stop clapping after Stalin speeches that applause once went on for 11 minutes straight. The man who finally was first to stop was imprisoned for ten years.
4XOEw TIL that Stephen Greenspan spent years researching gullibility and in 2008 published a book called “Annals of Gullibility.” Two days after the book was published he learned he had lost a third of his life saving in Bernie Madoff’s Ponzi scheme.
a6Oo TIL that SEAL Team Six was only the second SEAL team, but was designated the number six to confuse the Soviets as to how many SEAL teams there were.
9Y51p TIL European Organization for Nuclear Research or CERN, widely known for its project, the Large Hadron Collider (and popularized in the film Angels & Demons), it is also where the World Wide Web began as a CERN project named ENQUIRE, initiated by Tim Berners-Lee in 1989 and Robert Cailliau in 1990.