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TIL At Harvard, Neil Degrasse Tyson was criticized by a fellow African American economist major who told him that “Blacks in America do not have the luxury of your intellectual talents being spent on astrophysics”.

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wo66o TIL ecologists once thought Beaver dam-building was an amazing feat of planning, indicative of the high intellect. This was tested when a recording of running water was played in a field near a beaver pond. Although on dry land, the beaver covered the tape player with branches and mud.
wP56 TIL A Nebraska has a state tax on illegal drugs, and dealers “are required by law to buy stamps to affix on the packages, even though the drugs are illegal in the first place.”
doDd TIL in 1939, Major League pitcher, Bob Feller, tested the speed of his pitches by throwing them against a racing motorcycle before radar guns were invented.
9AKX TIL Gary Burghoff (who played Radar on MASH) has a deformed left hand. He hid it throughout his entire run on the series because it would have made Radar unfit for military duty.
Er5W TIL before we banked blood in the U.S., the first human body product to be “banked” was breast milk in 1910