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TIL: Former member of Blink-182, Tom DeLonge, has signed a research agreement with the Army to study "inertial mass reduction, mechanical/structural meta materials, electromagnetic meta material wave guides, quantum physics, quantum communications, and beamed energy propulsion"

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WgNN TIL that in 1999, New York Mets Manager Bobby Valentine, after being ejected from a game for arguing with the umpire, snuck back onto the field by disguising himself with a fake mustache and sunglasses.
1M0O TIL that The Golden Temple in India feeds a vegetarian meal to over 100,000 people a day regardless of race, religion and class.
rN4Vd TIL, Dungeons and dragons was demonized back in the 1980s particularly from religious groups due to the fantasical and violent nature of the game
ANx7B TIL that two of the Apollo missions carried seismic experiments that fired rocket propelled grenades up to 1500 meters. Five of the grenades remain on the moon, unexploded.
Y7OWx TIL about Robert Morris, who went from becoming the richest man in the United States (and Senator), to living in a debtors prison for 3 years.