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TIL Tin Foil Hats actually amplify, not protect one’s brain from radio waves.

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m1ZpY TIL Monty Python reunion shows typically included an urn said to contain the ashes of Graham Chapman. During one such show in 1998, the urn was "accidentally" knocked over by Terry Gilliam, spilling the ashes on stage, which were then vacuumed up with a DustBuster.
GjVN TIL the world’s oldest pool of water was discovered deep in a Canadian mine. It is 2 billion years old.
9YZR6 TIL the US sent 15-year MLB veteran Moe Berg to a 1944 lecture given by Werner Heisenberg (of uncertainty principle fame) with orders to shoot Heisenberg if his lecture indicated that the Germans were close to completing an atomic bomb.
9BLB TIL Brainstorming has been shown to produce fewer and lower quality ideas than when people work alone.
VVVQ TIL dead passengers on British Airways flights are disguised using sunglasses, a vodka tonic and a blanket