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TIL that actor John Schuck was the first actor to utter to work 'fuck' in a major American studio production in the movie 'MAS*H'. 1970

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V6Bm TIL: North Korea claims to have sunk the heavy cruiser USS Baltimore and even preserved the ship that “sunk it” in a museum. The USS Baltimore was never deployed to Korea and was scrapped in 1972.
QJOyk TIL it took 4 people only 4 days to Replicated a typical 2.5 tonne Block of the Great Pyramid, using the same tools found in an abandoned ancient quarry (copper chisels, wooden mallets, etc.)
VBlpD TIL that "Econophysics" is research field in Economics which models crises the way physicists model transitions of matter from fluid to solid state
XEmLr TIL when Professor Robert Goddard proposed using rockets to send men to the moon the New York Times ran a scathing editorial questioning his credentials, his chair at Clark College and intelligence. In response to Apollo 11 they printed one of the most famous retractions in history.
ay5J TIL that the most common last name among American physicians is no longer “Smith”, it’s “Patel”.