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TIL When HBO started scrambling their feed to satellite dish owners a Florida man calling himself 'Captain Midnight' overrode their satellite signal in protest

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5YENP TIL The soviet KGB had a secret beauty contest. Katya Mayorova was crowned "Miss KGB".
1an44 TIL plastic was invented in 1907. Since 1950, humanity has produced 6.3 billion metric tons of plastic waste; 9% of it is recycled, 12% is incinerated, 79% ends up in a landfill or in the environment. Majority of the world's plastic waste from the developed world is exported to Southeast Asia.
BGEk TIL It’s possible to trap a laser’s beam inside a stream of water, which will result in the beam being guided by the stream.
Gl9Q TIL that Christoph Waltz is the first and, thus far, only actor to win an Oscar for acting in a Quentin Tarantino film.
8aAnL TIL napping after a learning session leads to significantly better recall rate of the learned material one week later