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TIL the UK’s military satellite family is called Skynet.

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78ARX TIL before overdrive guitar pedals were invented, rock pioneer Link Wray would intentionally stab the speaker cone of his guitar amps with a pencil to achieve a distorted sound. This resulting effect can be heard on his 1958 song “Rumble”.
VBArD til that yoda, miss piggy, and grover were voiced by the same person
bLO9 TIL there is a secured village in the Netherlands specifically for people with dementia, where they can act out a normal life while being monitored and assisted by caretakers in disguise.
8a06L TIL about Project Cirrus the first attempt to modify a hurricane by dropping nearly 180 pounds of crushed dry ice into the clouds of the storm. The hurricane changed direction and made landfall near Savannah, Georgia.
7rnJx TIL that elephants have enough intelligence and dexterity to create drawings with their trunks