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TIL Colonel Sanders and Muhammad Ali are buried at the same cemetery.

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pYdW8 TIL as part of its foreign policy the Nixon administration actively portrayed the president as an out of control madman to try and convince hostile nations that he was capable of anything at anytime. Including nuclear war. Nixon dubbed this strategy "Madman Theory".
NXb9e TIL: A Stanford study showed that most humans are aroused by robots. Participants were hooked up with electric sensors and were asked by a robot to touch it in 13 areas. 90% showed arousal when touching the butt or crotch. The research has implications for artificial systems and robot design.
GAXBG TIL of the Braess paradox wherein overall traffic flow through a road network may decrease when more roads are added.
gMdVL TIL that in 1956 the USAF used interceptors armed only with unguided rockets to try and shoot down a runaway target drone. All 208 rockets missed, starting bush fires as well as hitting buildings and cars in a nearby town. In total over 1,000 acres of land was burnt but there were no fatalities.
6EGv8 TIL that Operation Cherry Blossoms at Night was a 1945 plan developed by Shirō Ishii to wage biological warfare upon civilian population centers in Southern California in the United States during the final months of World War II, using plague fleas from unit 731.