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TIL, In 2012, monkeys beat hedgefund managers by 300% in investment returns.

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Wkvxo TIL NASA will launch a SpaceX rocket next summer in a test of planetary defense. The rocket will impact a near-earth asteroid in 2022 in an attempt to change its trajectory.
0N7y TIL that in the 1966 film adaptation of “Fahrenheit 451” the credits are spoken, not read, in keeping with the film’s theme of destruction of reading material.
lOvN TIL that NFL legend Walter Payton originally didn’t want to play high school football, because his brother played and he didn’t want to compete with him. He only agreed to try out after receiving assurances that he wouldn’t have to quit the marching band, where he was an accomplished drummer
QJZGe TIL in 1988, Cosmo magazine told its female readers that having unprotected sex with an HIV-positive man is totally safe as long as they did the missionary position.
R0pj TIL Velcro was named for the words “velvet” & “crochet” and was invented by a Swiss engineer