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TIL it is possible to win Monopoly in 21 seconds

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wYy8 TIL NASA seriously thinks it can build a warp drive soon, now that the physicists have worked out the math. Here’s hoping.
4Xbea TIL about the Implicit Association Test (IAT). It is a test developed in 1998 to assess people's implicit bias in things such as race and sex. I've linked the Harvard version of the test if you want to give it a go.
jNxn TIL Richard Nixon scrupulously maintained a massive list of political enemies, including Joe Namath, Bill Cosby, and the Otis Elevator Company
OG9NX TIL of “Lonesome Gal,” who played a wildly popular virtual girlfriend over the radio in the 1950’s
jRkv TIL a Bosnian man faked his own death just to see who would come to his funeral. Only his mother showed up.