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TIL that Stephen Fry is the only person alive who knows why Douglas Adams chose 42 as the answer to “Life, the Universe and Everything”

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mxXjR TIL: An Afghan tank commander reported to his president that Marxists planned to attack the capital. Subsequently, the President ordered tanks to guard it. The tanks then turned their guns on the palace and ultimately killed the him. The tank commander himself was secretly the Marxist general.
w1E8 TIL that mathematician John Edmund Kerrich passed his time in Nazi captivity by flipping a coin 10,000 times. The total percentage of heads and tails flips varied wildly at first but gradually converged around 50/50, providing a demonstration of the Law of Large Numbers.
GYGWg TIL that in 2010, the Colombian government successfully transmitted a Morse message to their captive soldiers by composing a song popular enough to hit local top 40 radio and disguising the Morse Code in a synth interlude
Pm6Z TIL That The Poorest States Have The Highest Paid Megachurch Pastors
m1Oex TIL that KNHC 89.5 FM Seattle is the world's oldest, still remaining, dance music station. It was established in December 1969, and owned by Seattle Public Schools, therefore it's a non-commercial educational station funded only by a Community Service Grant and fund raising efforts.