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TIL in responding to why he starred in Jaws: The Revenge, Michael Caine said “I have never seen the film, but by all accounts it was terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built, and it is terrific.”

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0wVN5 TIL about the the transmitter for WLW radio outside Cincinnati, until the output was reduced in 1939 from 500,000 watts, would cause lights to not turn off until WLW engineers rewired houses, a nearby hotel sign never went dark and farmers reported hearing WLW through their barbed-wire fences.
VBoQk TIL that knowledge is not power
v1Ll7 TIL The calcium in out bones and the iron in our blood come from ancient explosions of giant stars.
LQr1p TIL "once in a blue moon" is around every 2.7172 years and is coincidentally close to the number e.
PYONL TIL half of the youth who age out of the American foster system will not have a steady job at age 24. Less than 3% will earn a college degree at any point in their life.