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ODB1 TIL when Futurama has Stephen Hawking as a character they do not simulate his voice but actually ask him to voice act
x8xB TIL a British intelligence agent was found dead in his apartment, having been stuffed-naked-inside a duffel bag that was padlocked from the outside. A police investigation ruled it an accident
Vm0m TIL There is a subset of Catholicism, recognised vatican called Eastern Catholicism who instead of taking the Latin rite take the Eastern Rite or Byzantine rite which among many differences allows their priests to marry.
mvEY TIL that in a US military exercise named Millenium Challenge 2002 - the most expensive war games in history - the general commanding the anti-U.S. team used low-tech methods to ‘kill’ over 20,000 simulated U.S. troops. After this, the military made him stick to a script where the U.S. forces 'won’.
QJ6Mp TIL that the '=' sign was designed in 1557 by Robert Recorde, having gotten fed up with writing 'is equal to'. He decided that there was nothing more equal than two parallel lines, and designed the symbol from that logic