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TIL David Letterman sponsors a scholarship at Ball State that is supposedly awarded to “average” students, since he was a mediocre student.

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grM68 TIL New Zealand has a launch facility which has been used to put spy satellites in orbit for the USA
VM9gQ TIL Bhangmeter is the device used to measure yield of nuclear weapon.It is named after the hindi word for cannabis as a joke that only a person on drugs would believe the bhangmeter to work properly.
R5M98 TIL that Quebec's provincial pension fund owns nearly 20% of the international circus act Cirque du Soleil Entertainment Group, founding in Quebec
pYYnp TIL BMW ran an April Fools ad saying they were giving away a free car. Only one woman showed up in her 15-year old station wagon.. so they gave her a free car. On top of that, her old car was sold off and the proceeds were donated to children with disabilities
KpMB TIL Genghis Khan killed so many people he cleaned about 700 million tons of Carbon from the atmosphere. It may be the first case of man made global cooling.