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TIL Ray Bradbury believed we all wound up creating the dystopian future of Fahrenheit 451 anyway. “Stop talking on the telephone, stop talking on the stupid Internet. It’s a waste of time.”

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EAMX TIL that Eminem is commended in the 2015 edition of the Guinness Book of World Records for having the most words in a hit single, ‘Rap God’, totaling 1,560 words in 6 minutes, 4 seconds.
nnx9 TIL that those plane trails in the sky are caused by condensation, and there’s a conspiracy theory that believes they are chemicals sprayed by the government.
x6QkD TIL Steelworkers went to war against Henry Clay Frick when he and Andrew Carnegie bought out their Mill
8kJb TIL scientists have found that the older a father is when his child is born, the uglier the child tends to be. However, a child with an older father is more likely to live longer than a child of with a young father.
J17Yv TIL that radio broadcasting began in university physics and engineering departments