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TIL there is a full episode of “Everybody Loves Hypnotoad”

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VMndG TIL Nikola Tesla used Sanskrit words in his descriptions of natural phenomena. After meeting Swami Vivekananda, Tesla began using the words 'Akasha', 'Prana', and the concept of a luminiferous ether to describe the source, existence and construction of matter.
a811y TIL Josef Goebbels wrote a three-part semi-autobiographical novel called “Michael: A German Destiny in Diary Form” which was published in 1929. The story is about a young man returning to Weimar Germany after serving in World War I.
7X9p TIL although the NFL is 60% black, the top 33 scorers of all time are white (because they are kickers)
rRPde TIL that Tay was an artificial intelligence bot that was released by Microsoft via Twitter on March 23, 2016; it caused controversy when the bot began to post inflammatory and offensive tweets through its Twitter account, causing Microsoft to shut down the service only 16 hours after its launch.
kJ7ZW TIL about Patti Lyle Collins, head of the US Dead Letter Office. She was known for her ability to deciper hard to read or incomplete addresses on mail, such as being able to deduce that a letter addressed to "Presidente Sterite, Catimoa" was meant to go to "President Street, Baltimore".