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TIL The O'Reilly Factor is the #1 Cable News Program in America, however, the median age of viewers is 72 years old.

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LQpYP TIL The Universe was so hot and dense after the big bang that it took 360,000 years for the first atoms to form. The proton and neutron formed atomic nuclei shortly after the big bang but the electrons were free of their orbit for hundreds of thousand of years.
N7PZ1 TIL That the Cuban Missile Crisis began when a CIA operative noticed soccer fields on a Cuban Military Base. “Cubans play baseball, Russians play soccer”
XEa7E TIL in 1978 Ford Motor Company had to recall 1.5 million Ford Pintos for fuel tank design defects which made the vehicles susceptible to explosive fire if the car was rear ended at more than 20 MPH.
PYjdV Today I learned H.P. Lovecraft had a cat named "N word (hard R) Man".
NXLaN TIL that the top secret SOG operators in the Vietnam war had trouble hiding their boot prints on Viet Cong trails, even trying special boots with bare footprint soles. They eventually collected 20,000 pairs of used boots from US combat hospitals and air dropped them to the NVA and Viet Cong.