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TIL Joseph Stalin plotted to kill John Wayne

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9wWaD TIL about ternary plots. You can visualise 3 quantities on a 2d triangular graph if they add up to a constant (eg. soil components or colour composition). One graph is “x+y+z=1” which makes a triangle on positive axes, with the regular 3d gridlines intersecting to form triangular ones in the graph.
nWke7 TIL Robert Opel, the streaker from the 1974 Oscars, ran for President under the slogan “Not just another crooked dick”, was a speech writer for Ronald Reagan, and was murdered during a break in into his studio apartment.
4X9aa TIL that the Hasty Pudding Theatricals is a theatrical student society at Harvard University, known for its burlesque crossdressing musicals. Alumni include Teddy Roosevelt, J.P. Morgan, John Quincy Adams, Joshua Max Brener (Bighead on the Silicon Valley TV show), and Ted Kennedy, among others.
78mxM TIL In 2010, the newly-formed Common Core State Standards for English initiative did not include cursive handwriting instruction. In 2011, 41 states adopted the Common Core standards, thus removing the requirement for cursive instruction in the respective state curriculum
KYmPw TIL Neanderthals suffered a high rate of traumatic injury with 79–94% of Neanderthal specimens showing evidence of healed major trauma from frequent animal attacks.