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TIL: Rain Gods And Prayers to The Great Mystery

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xV7wD TIL JRR Tolkien (Author of the Hobbit, Lord of the Rings) would hand-write, illustrate, envelop, seal, stamp letters from "Father Christmas" to each of his children each year.
4k1OX TIL Inspector Gadget was voiced by the same actor who played Maxwell Smart (Get Smart) -- Don Adams
VBAvD TIL atomic bomb testing has changed our biology
8y08 TIL The first stealth technology test failed. They couldn’t understand why until they noticed a bird sitting on the test object. They blew a loud horn, the bird flew off, and the test object disappeared from the radar screen showing stealth technology was a success.
WkbMB TIL about the Baedeker blitz, when the Nazis used German guidebooks to British towns (Baedeker was the Lonely Planet of the day) to select bombing targets that would demoralize the British.