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TIL about the Mandlebrot set and how fractals are created.

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dDZEj TIL that TED and TEDx talks are two completely different things and not everyone gets to give a TED talk or not as much as of an opportunity you get for a TEDx talk!
OGolY TIL that photoelectric cells (which effect explained by Einstein) switched the lights on during the exposition of Chicago from 1833. They were activated from photons coming from Acturus star ; those took 40 years to land there and were released from the star during the previous exposition
R5DG9 TIL in 2008, Playboy ran a nationwide search for a "Girls of the Olive Garden" pictorial. The mag already featured shoots for “Girls of McDonalds," “Women of Wal-Mart” and “Women of Home Depot.”
OOda TIL L. Ron Hubbard considered himself a nuclear physicist, even though his degree was from an unaccredited university. The one course in nuclear physics Hubbard took was in 1931, whose records indicate that he scored an F in the course. Hubbard dropped out of school shortly thereafter with a 2.28GPA
R7mv4 TIL that every two years the people of Brussels create a Flower Carpet with more than 500,000 flowers.