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TIL Republicans fund science more than Democrats, and Democrats under Clinton cut the NASA budget by 25%, and under Bush, the budget went up by 20%

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9wDAX TIL that actor Robert Reed hated playing Mike Brady on The Brady Bunch as he saw it as beneath his Shakespearean training. He often clashed with producers over the script. Despite this he got along very well with the rest of the cast and appeared in the show's spinoffs and sequels.
wLd9M TIL a Florida professor caught 200 of his students in a cheating scandal and captured his lecture to them in a video he later posted online
W7EOX TIL that a cup of grape juice contains 33% more sugar than a cup of grape soda.
ADPAa TIL the "Einstein refrigerator" is an absorption refrigerator which has no moving parts, operates at constant pressure, and requires only a heat source to operate. It was jointly invented in 1926 by Albert Einstein and his former student Leó Szilárd, who patented it in the US on 11/11/1930.
xV1AD TIL of Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon, something you just found out about suddenly seems everywhere. It’s caused by two different things: Selective attention, which kicks in when you’re struck by a brand new thing and confirmation bias, each sighting is further proof that you’re right.