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TIL The announcer of Bill Nye the Science Guy was the same announcer as Super Smash Bros Brawl

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R5v0a TIL that the characterization of Jack Sparrow is based off Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards
epkbk Today I learned that there is a professional peruvian footballer with the name Osama Vinladen Jiménez López, named after Osama bin Laden whose brothers name is Sadam Husein named after the former president of Iraq.
jknN TIL The average high school student today has the same stress level as the average psychiatric patient did in the 1950s.
rNEPy TIL that in 1894 the U.S. Army killed 30 American citizens during the Pullman Strike. Union organizer and future socialist presidential candidate Eugene V. Debs was called "an enemy of the human race" in a New York Times editorial, and imprisoned for mail obstruction.
wo6mM TIL about Philo Farnsworth, a farm boy from Idaho who, at just 14, conceived the idea for electronic television while plowing a field. Despite no formal training, his unexpected innovation laid the foundation for the technology that transformed communication and entertainment worldwide.