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TIL there is an organisation responsible for maintaining global time standards, and they occasionally apply a "leap second" to Universal Standard Time

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jNeDQ TIL, in the 1990s, USAF Developed MARAUDER, a Plasma Toroid Rail Gun That Theoretically Could Fire Plasma Projectiles at 10,000 km/s, 3% the Speed of Light. In the Mid-1990s Results Were Classified Due its Success.
v1QMr Today I learned that Al Yankovich is actually 1/4 Slovene 1/4 Croat not 1/2 serb!
XELX8 TIL Henk Rogers just went to Moscow and tried to buy the rights for Tetris from the Soviet Union. When Rogers arrived at Electronorgtechnica his translator refused to go inside as going to a government agent without proper paperwork was unthinkable. Rogers went in anyways and got rights to Tetris.
y1gJ TIL in 1913 a man was charged for threatening to kill his wife and newborn son with a knife. The mother remarried and the boy changed his name to that of his step-father. That boy went on to become the 38th President of the United States, Gerald Ford.
69eAJ TIL that the ancient Egyptians believed in over 1,400 different gods and goddesses, each with their own unique responsibilities and powers