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TIL that 90% of all scientists who have ever lived are alive today.

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m1N6Y TIL that on April 23 1953 Dwight D Eisenhower issued Executive Order 10450 which banned homosexuals from working for the federal government or any of its private contractors. An estimated 5000-10,000 people lost their jobs because of this policy, now known as the "lavender scare".
d6Ej TIL falcon breeders often let the male birds copulate with their heads, while the breeder wears a special semen-collecting hat. The breeder then courts a female bird of the same species and squirts the collected semen into her using a syringe. All this due to a process known as sexual imprinting.
E1Pwd TIL Suicides went up 10 percent across the U.S. in the four months after actor Robin Williams too his own life.
lo5JA TIL that in 2013 a petition requesting that the United States Government build a Death Star reached 25,000 signatures, the threshold requiring the White House office to make a response. One part of the response was, "The Administration does not support blowing up planets."
wLEaE TIL that the US Pentagon has the high number of 284 toilets, which is twice as much as the actual needs for the staff. The Pentagon avoids talking about this fact because it is due to the racial segregation laws in force in Virginia during the construction of the building, between 1941 and 1943.