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TIL of Richard Lee McNair - A criminal who escaped prison, then got stopped by a police officer while on the run and convinced him that he was just a jogger passing by

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4XQ06 TIL that in 2020, the first quantum chess tournament was played. In quantum chess, there are multiple boards on which the pieces exist, and any quantum move creates a superposition of boards. In order to determine where the entangled piece is actually located, a player must make a measurement
yQnPX TIL that psilocybin, the active compound in psychedelic mushrooms, is found only in the mushroom’s cap and stem and not in its spores. Since most drug laws prohibit psilocybin rather than the mushroom itself, this loophole makes the sale and possession of the spores legal in many countries.
OoOae TIL that a USSR physicist published his equations for solving reflected electromagnetic waves from surfaces, as the Soviet authorities considered them insignificant for military purposes. His work was found by Lockheed in the 1970s, leading to a breakthrough in developing their stealth plane F-117.
Rnd6 TIL- Quaker Oates and MIT conducted an experiment on unsuspecting, mentally retarded children. They tricked them into eating radioactive cereal by telling them they were in a “science club.”
RAo8 TIL Alan Alda is the only actor to appear in all 251 episodes of the long-running series MAS*H. He commuted from Los Angeles to his home in New Jersey, where his wife and daughters lived, every weekend for the 11-year-run of the show, because he didn’t know how long the show would last.