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TIL there’s a baseball diamond on Area 51

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LkOWV TIL in 2013 a Verizon programmer was found outsourcing his work to a Chinese company for less than 20% of his salary and spending his "workday" surfing the Internet. The Chinese code was so good that the programmer was regarded as the best in his department of Verizon.
nWj5b TIL young horseshoe crabs use their flap shaped gills called book gills to paddle through the water.
9Ypb7 TIL of Colma, California, a city for the dead. 1500 aboveground residents and 1.5 million underground. Colma’s official motto is, “It’s Great to Be Alive in Colma.”
K8D4 TIL the taliban use space blankets to hide their heat signatures from nato forces during night attacks
D1Jjr TIL that Pat McCormick, head writer for The Tonight Show, streaked across the stage during Johnny Carson's monologue in 1974. (For Golden Girls fans, McCormick was also the drugstore clerk who asked for a price check on condoms. https://youtu.be/BpNS8jYniLY)