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TIL: How a Fitness App Revealed Secret Military Bases
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TIL Sir James Barrie, the creator of Peter Pan, gave the copyright of Peter Pan to the Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital of London upon his death. Barrie’s only condition was that the hospital never disclose the income brought in from royalties.
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TIL: Caffeine is a banned substance by the NCAA. A urinary caffeine concentration exceeding 15 micrograms per milliliter (corresponding to ingesting about 500 milligrams, roughly 6 to 8 cups of brewed coffee, two to three hours before competition) results in a positive drug test.
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TIL Stephen Crowder played “The Brain” from the cartoon series Arthur when he was 14.
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TIL that In 1965, a four-year-old nearly drowned at a beach, but was rescued by a woman named Alice Blaise. 9 years later, that boy saved a man at the same beach. That man was Alice’s husband.
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TIL Most alarms and sirens fall into the frequency range 1-3 kHz where the human hearing is the most sensitive, but this frequency range is also a black spot in our sound location abilities.