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TIL: Cherry Beach and the 3 Body Problem

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Qeke TIL in 1981 a man named Roger Fischer had an idea for a volunteer to have ICBM launch codes put in their chest cavity. In the event of an emergency, the volunteer would carry a knife to be killed with. It was meant to force the personal killing of one man to start the impersonal killing of millions.
rRWAo TIL King of Bohemia Charles IV, who commissioned the construction of Prague's Charles Bridge in the 14th century, was rumored to have ordered that egg yolks be added to enrich the mortar and strength the bridge's structure. Scientific evidence indeed found the presence of egg proteins in the mortar.
ODAe TIL a ship can be cut into two, and extended by welding in a new center section.
xVak1 TIL the computer program that created the THX "Deep Note" (before a movie screening) was coded to be random. The audio you hear was recorded one time and can never be recreated exactly by that computer again.
ax10 TIL Tiger Woods, despite being worth $500 million dollars, once pulled a “mulligan” by taking back a $5 tip to a waitress after realizing he had tipped her earlier in the day. By the way, he was playing a $10,000 hand of blackjack at the time.