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TIL Brad Fiedel accidentally composed the well-known main theme from 1984’s The Terminator in a very unusual time-signature: 13/16. This 2014 Slate article investigates the matter. (3rd Post Attempt)

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rR9ae TIL search and rescue dog Trakr, who found the last survivor 27 hours after the 9/11 attacks, was successfully cloned in 2009. The five puppies produced then went on to be trained as search and rescue dogs
grOEy TIL The Hale telescope features a 200 inch (5.08m) diameter mirror. The mirror took 10 months anneal and was delivered to Caltech in 1936. The telescope was completed in 1948 as it took years of grinding and polishing to make the mirror accurate to 2/1,000,000ths of an inch of a perfect paraboloid.
p8a4 TIL There’s a helium shortage. In a decade, we might not even have enough for silicon. Or for an MRI.
VMlnm TIL On his second day in office, President Jimmy Carter pardoned all of the Vietnam War draft evaders.
5gV9 TIL that females may be attracted towards promiscuous males because that would increase her sons’ future breeding successes, a phenomenon known as the Sexy Son Hypothesis.