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TIL that Conan O'Brien met his wife Liza while shooting a remote piece on Late Night. At the 3:37 mark you can see a husband and wife meet for the first time.

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oeJA TIL that in 1941, a British physicist guessed the major technical specifications of a Nazi bomber radio guidance system based solely on its code name, “Wotan”, and created effective countermeasures before it was even deployed.
Oo6NR TIL that in 1937 the Hershey Company made a high calorie chocolate bar designed to taste "a little better than a baked potato" for the US Army so that soldiers would only eat it in case of real emergency
GKl4 TIL Mohammad said in Quran “You don’t praise my god, and I don’t praise your god. Keep your gods to yourselves, and I’ll keep mine to myself”
LbAZ TIL Rich people in China often hire body doubles to serve their prison sentences.
Daee TIL of the Great Emu War, in which Australia deployed soldiers armed with machine guns to fight against a horde of 20,000 Emus that were terrorizing the countryside; it was largely unsuccessful.