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TIL Anderson Cooper is heir to the Vanderbilt Family

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LkNx9 TIL: Most data scientists spend only 20 percent of their time on actual data analysis and 80 percent of their time finding, cleaning, and reorganizing huge amounts of data
Po7V TIL The Concorde supersonic jet stretched during flight due to the heat it generated. On its final flight the crew placed their hats into a crevice in the floor which appeared during the flight, as the aircraft cooled the crevice closed, permanently sealing their hats in the aluminum airframe.
AD9vw TIL when filing for bankruptcy, ex-NFL Player Mike Vick personally elected Chapter 11 Bankruptcy as opposed to Chapter 7, so he would be able to pay back his debt almost in full. Paying $17.4 million of the $17.6 million he owed. “I didn’t want to stiff people who never stiffed me”
rBjw TIL that sometimes when we scratch one part of our body we can feel in another point somewhere else, and this is called Referred Itch
b9JaZ TIL A cow is not a cow until it has had at least one calf. Until then it is called a heifer.