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TIL The US government backed out of the film “independence day” because producers refused to remove references to the secret Area 51 site.

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kOoEE TIL pants and trousers are called pairs because they used to be separate. As early as the 16th Century, you'd feed one leg in, tie the top around your waist and do the same with the other leg. The name stayed even when they started being made as a single item.
wLWJ TIL Curiosity’s minimum uplink rates to Earth are 160bits/sec and 800bits/sec, depending on the antenna it is targeting on Earth.
Oovvg TIL Chen Si, a Chinese man, has spent every weekend of the past 13 years patrolling the most notorious suicide spot in China, helping prevent suicides. He has saved well over 300 people.
w8EM TIL the first version of The Game of Life featured a suicide square.
XEj7j TIL a 2015 survey showed that STEM workers are more likely to have autistic traits than non-STEM ones - the average STEM worker had an autism spectrum quotient of 21.9, while the rest had 18.9.