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TIL :A small percentage of static on televisions is actually radioactive resonance from the big bang 13 billion years ago.

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XrMj TIL the Allied operation to conceal the D-Day Invasion involved fake radio traffic, double agents, an Australian actor, and fake invasion plans for Calais, Norway, the Mediterranean, and the Balkans. It was so effective Hitler believed the real invasion hadn’t begun until seven weeks after D-Day.
VM0xQ TIL when Richard Feynman was in the State Curriculum Commission of California, he found out that some members of the committee which was responsible for choosing which books are used in public education had given a rating to not only unfinished, but completely blank textbooks [Page 173]
YAZd TIL At 11 years old Warren Buffett bought his first stock, 6 shares of Cities Service (CITGO) at $38 per share. The price fell to $27 but soon went to $40 and he sold. However the stock shot up to $202 a few years later and he later cited this experience as an early lesson in patience in investing.
VMwN0 TIL aerospace engineer and author Judith Love Cohen (worked on the Hubble Space Telescope) had two well known sons. The first son, Neil Siegel, developed GPS receivers in mobile devices and the US Army's first unmanned air vehicle system. The second son is a rather famous actor... named Jack Black.
e0aOb TIL that Baywatch's fans were predominantly women. 65% of viewers were female, with its number-one audience being women aged 18 to 34. It turns out that the female viewers liked that the show's lead characters were strong, independent, heroic women who were saving lives and were equal to the men.