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TIL The Simpsons depiction of Homer’s job qualifications are correct. You only need a High School diploma to operate a nuclear reactor.

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AP4 TIL the actual normal human body temperature is 97.9 °F, not 98.6 °F (as is commonly cited), because someone rounded before converting their units.
4xjJ TIL Roger Babson, the first economic forecaster to predict the 1929 crash and Great Depression, thought of gravity as his sworn enemy and tried to get rid of it.
pvQG TIL In Wisconsin in 1907 a mother spanked her child who had dynamite in his back pocket, exploding him and tearing her fingers off.
kO9x1 TIL Isaac Hayes, one of the only famous black Scientologists, approached Scientology leader David Miscavige and asked why the religion wasn’t doing more to court black Americans. So Miscavige reached out to the Nation of Islam, and by 2010, they began promoting the benefits of Scientology.
ALjo TIL: The makers of Jurassic Park designed a human-sized Raptor (normally via http://ift.tt/1Us3QxY