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TIL a Harvard Researcher found rolling a pair of dice was as predictive of your future income as your college GPA is.

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x6o1g TIL 'Bogdan' (car wash owner from Breaking Bad) is an actual scientist in real life, having a Ph.D in Chemistry, and at one point he served in the Office of Nuclear Energy in the United States. At first his kids wanted ot be extras in Breaking Bad, but the producers 'liked his look', so cast him.
mYAo TIL that the Matrix was so heavily influenced by Anime “Ghost in the Shell” on a scene by scene basis, that they actually asked permission from it’s creator before creating the matrix. Here is a video comparison.
9L4G TIL: The expiry date on water bottles is when chemicals from the plastic bottle leaks into the water
EnwV TIL that astronomers recently discovered an unfathomably large structure just beyond the edge of the known universe that is pulling galaxies towards it at breakneck speeds. Some think it could be another universe butting up against ours.
R5k08 TIL in 1964 Texas Instruments, popularly known for creating the TI-84 graphing calculator, created the first laser guidance system for precision guidance munitions, intended for use on F-4 Phantom fighter jets in Vietnam. The company sold its defense business to Raytheon in 1997.