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R5La1 TIL the "Pauli effect" is the supposed tendency of technical equipment to mysteriously break in the presence of certain people. The effect is named after Austrian theoretical physicist Wolfgang Pauli, whose presence was associated with spontaneous mechanical failure throughout his career.
YpEvZ TIL that April 11, 1954 was calculated to be "The Most Boring Day in History". It featured only a handful of newsworthy events in the entire world.
v1Zpx TIL Kurdish forces allegedly volunteered to join the Allied Forces during WWII, but the offer was declined
4XBeo TIL that Soviet music bootleggers in the 50s and 60s would take discarded X-Ray film from hospitals and re-purpose them into improvised phonograph records containing banned music. These recordings were called "Rib Music", "Jazz on Bones", or "Roentgenizdat"
kOny4 TIL Baikonur, Kazkhstan is the world’s first and also the largest space launch facility. The Baikonur Spaceport Museum has more than 13,000 various displays and space shuttles from the oldest to the most recent ones