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TIL Despite the historical nomenclature, the "imaginary" part of complex numbers have a mathematical existence as firm as that of the real numbers, and they are fundamental tools in the scientific description of the natural world.

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nWKvd TIL during WWII, the U.S. began a plan to train up to 2 million attack dogs to storm Japanese-held islands, but the project faced many issues. Some dogs feared shellfire, others were too docile, and many did not properly respond to their beach-crossing training. Millions spent, it was abandoned.
89va TIL Michael Jordan, aka The Chicago Dynamo, was fined $5000 for each game he wore his signature Air Jordans. Nike paid all the fines.
jNmRE TIL that 5,500 Sacajawea dollars that were included in boxes of Cheerios were struck from a different set of master dies than regular Sacajawea dollars, making them with thousands of dollars today.
7rvK7 TIL About 70% of the radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl disaster landed in Belarus, heavily contaminating one-fourth of the country, one-fifth of its agricultural land and affecting at least 7 million people.
VBYKk TIL that an average of 2 amputations occur weekly at US meatpacking plants.