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TIL There are actually multiple definitions of 'real'. In 1972, Nobel Prize winning theoretical physicists, John Clauser, Anton Zeilinger and Alain Aspect showed that the 'local realism' view of the universe is likely to be false. Meaning: the world exists only when you're looking at it.

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Xgd6 TIL that according to John Deere farmers don’t own the tractors but merely have “an implied license for the life of the vehicle to operate the vehicle” and claims it is illegal to access to the diagnostic software because someone might pirate music from the system.
ANxXB TIL: Eugene Bullard (1895–1961) was the first Black combat pilot, serving in the French Air Service during WWI. An American expatriate, he later became a jazz musician, boxer, and club owner in Paris after escaping Jim Crowe. He used his status in Parisian high society to spy on the Nazis.
Z1no TIL that the Beatles album, ‘Revolver’ was almost named 'After Geography’ (credits to Ringo), to contrast with the Rolling Stones album, 'Aftermath’.
awN5A TIL: Your ring to digit finger ratio has been studied as correlated with your testosterone / estrogen exposure at birth and various other skills, personality traits, cognitive abilities, academic performance, and behavior.
Wea8 TIL squirrels were voracious pests in colonial America. Bounties were imposed to reduce populations and some colonies even accepted squirrel scalps as payment for taxes. Colonists became such marksmen from shooting squirrels, they later devastated the ranks of British soldiers during the revolution.