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TIL of Connections, a 1978 science education TV series created by science historian James Burke. The series contends that one cannot consider the development of any particular piece of the modern world in isolation but rather that interconnected isolated events is what drives history and innovation.

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L4EP TIL that Mitochondria within cells originated from parasitic bacteria
p8kPZ TIL of an alleged mental disorder called 'zero stroke' which came about during German hyperinflation in the early 1920s. Those affected would write endless strings of zeros and, in some cases, state that they were ten billion years old or had forty trillion children
newXW TIL: Teams that disagree more perform better than those which do not
Ae9n TIL George Washinton’s adopted son was the father-in-law of Confederate General Robert E. Lee
NK7e TIL in 2007 the head of a California company hired by the U.S. government to help build a fence along the Southwest border to curb the flow of illegal aliens into the United States was sentenced on charges of hiring illegals for the job.