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TIL - The "jungle gym" was invented to teach kids 4d thinking
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TIL that the coin at the coin-toss of an NFL game didn't flip. After the coin was tossed, it landed on the same face without flipping at all. They had to redo the toss.
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TIL - in 2011, firefighters let a house burn down because the owners had not paid the $75 annual firefighting fee
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TIL the movie “The China Syndrome”, which tells the story of a reporter who discovers safety coverups at a nuclear power plant, was met with backlash from the nuclear power industry for being “sheer fiction”. Twelve days later, the Three Mile Island nuclear meltdown accident occurred.
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TIL Raúl Esparza (ADA Rafael Barba in Law and Order: SVU) has been nominated in all Tony categories for which an actor is eligible.
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TIL that before he joined Queen, John Deacon (the bassist) was a trained electronics engineer. He used these skills to build an amplifier from electronic equipment he found in a dumpster. It became known as the “Deacy Amp” and, along with Brian May’s guitar, was a key component of Queen’s sound.