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TIL Jamie Hyneman, co-host of Mythbusters, has a degree in Russian Linguistics

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Ryr4 TIL that hard disks are so sensitive to vibration, that just screaming at them diminishes their performance
R7p88 TIL Black Bears are killed for their skins to make Marge Simpson type hats for the Queen's Guards. In 2015, they purchased 122 hats for £1,224 each. There have been calls by animal rights groups to phase out this practice.
98yD TIL a woman from Texas won multimillion lotteries 4 times. The “luckiest woman in the world” is a former math professor who holds a PhD from Stanford.
BrAor TIL Norman Pilcher, who arrested John Lennon and other rock stars for drug possession in the 1960's, served four years in prison starting in 1973 for fabricating entries in his police diary in the course of a large drug investigation.
p8e64 TIL when Robert Ballard (professor of oceanography) announced a mission to find the Titanic, it was a cover story for a classified mission to search for lost nuclear submarines. They finished before they were due back, so the team spent the extra time looking for the Titanic and actually found it.