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TIL Children’s books have 50% more rare words in them than does an average showing of adult prime-time television

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4XjNa TIL that during WWII there was an event known as that 'Battle of Los Angeles'. Citizens and military thought the Japanese were attacking Los Angeles and fired AA guns into the sky. Turns out it was only a lost weather balloon.
jjrX TIL a 15-year-old blind kid was able to use his enhanced hearing to hack telephone systems by perfectly reproducing dial tones. He even went as far as faking calls to the SWAT team in order to have them surround the houses of his enemies.
mopx TIL Stephen Colbert once took over a public access cable show in Michigan to interview Eminem on the air
p8lRO TIL that bowling can be traced as far back as 3,600 BC
KOLxa TIL: Some farmers in Bangladesh have switched to raising ducks instead of chickens, because during catastrophic floods, ducks float.