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TIL Top Gun's Charlie was based on Christine Fox, a mathematician who worked at the Center for Naval Analyses, just accross the street from the Navy's Topgun School. In 2013 she became the Defense Department's acting Deputy Secretary, making her the highest ranking female in the DoD's history

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78WEx TIL that the James Webb telescope can capture objects of 1 nanojansky of brightness. Mike Menzel, an engineer on the telescope, explains: "If I was to put a child's nightlight on the surface of the moon, and look at it from the Earth, that would be 20 nanojanskys."
Oo8DR TIL public urinals or "Pissoirs" were used by the French Resistance during World War II as places to meet for a private conversation or to leave a message for someone without the Nazi’s finding out.
epOJn TIL that North Korea once beat Italy in the FIFA World Cup
AD1Nl TIL children's YouTube celebrity Blippi was once a self proclaimed shock comedian who made a "Harlem Shake" video where he explosively defecated on his friends face. He has used DMCA takedowns to try and erase it from the internet.
xVPQ0 TIL People who work in slaughterhouses can and do suffer from PTSD