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TIL that in Soviet Union people with PhD in Atheism were important.

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GYBXg TIL An estimated 1,382 shipping containers are lost overboard at sea during transportation each year, never to be found again.
oBGxK TIL that Jeremy Rossman dropped out of MIT in 2011 to start his own college, Make School. The young college offers a project based bachelors degree in computer science that involves working with companies on current, real world problems. Students only pay tuition if they are hired upon graduation.
x6Kro TIL the United States was slated to transition to the metric system, however, in 1793, the ship transporting the standardized meter and kilogram was seized by pirates and the measurements never arrived in the country...
x6eMw TIL that famous jazz drummer Art Blakey briefly converted to Islam in the 1940s and led a "turbaned, Qur'an-reading jazz band called the 17 Messengers".
OZwg TIL that Wisconsin is the only state requiring external investigations of police-involved deaths.