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TIL: The CIA is supposed to release the JFK assassination records to the public no later than 10/26/2017

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x4g7 TIL the Voyager missions were launched when they did to take advantage of a unique planetary arrangement that allowed flight time to Neptune to be reduced from 30 years to 12. This alignment occurs every 175 years.
W7AA TIL That a spin off of ‘Hey, Arnold!“ was pitched focusing on a teenage Helga. It was rejected by Nick for being too dark and by MTV for being too much like Daria.
OAl7 TIL researchers tweaked a computer’s learning system so that it would read the manual for Civilization and adjust its strategy according to the information. The machine won 79% of the games it played, compared to 46% for a machine that didn’t read the manual.
Eg1nw TIL that the ghost town of Kolmanskop, once a german, diamond-mining settlement in Namibia and one of the wealthiest cities in the world, had a hospital with the first X-Ray unit in the southern hemisphere
pYJMe TIL Lina Khan, the head of the FTC, was nominated for the position just 4 years after graduating law school