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TIL: Personal incomes in the US have fallen 10-15% for working age men since the year 2000.

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6R9m TIL that Gene Roddenberry, the creator of Star Trek, added a clause to his contract with Paramount specifying that if anyone actually made a functioning tricorder, they’d have automatically earned the right call it a tricorder if they wanted to.
J1PGj TIL about the “other 9/11”, the 1973 Chilean coup d'état, which was supported by the CIA.
9YJKr TIL the song "Yankee Doodle" was sung by British soldiers to taunt American soldiers during the Revolution. Specifically, the song implied that American soldiers were gay.
ZJGQ TIL that a company filtered applications out by those who used Chrome or Firefox instead of Internet Explorer because they were deemed to be more capable.
vPpw4 TIL that Albert Einstein was not awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on special relativity and energy mass equivalence (which led to the famous equation E=mc^2) but rather for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect.