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TIL the leader of the US nuclear regulatory agency is Mr. Burns

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b6yo0 TIL David Koresh, leader of religious cult Branch Davidians, was infatuated with American pop singer Madonna and claimed that God himself sent Madonna to Earth for him.
epeVk TIL that Urdu was made the national language of Pakistan at independence even though only 5% of Pakistanis spoke the language. Even today, while Urdu is widely spoken and understood, it is only the native tongue of around 5% of the population.
aKXL TIL that in the German version of Die Hard, the villain Hans Gruber is rewritten to be Irish, not German, and renamed Jack Gruber
JvWm TIL researchers studied cats viewing photos of various bearded men. Cats viewing long beards exhibited paralysis and signs of severe neurological distress. Researchers concluded cats don’t like men with long beards, are indifferent to short beards, and disturbed/confused by incomplete beards
EgRdX TIL those steel windmill-looking things that are commonly seen on farms are called "windpumps", and they use energy from the wind to pressurize and pump water for irrigation.