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TIL the term "skunkworks" does not mean what I thought it meant. It does NOT mean a project with no upper management support, but rather it's when a small team, seaparate team is formed to develop a particular thing. The team itself is usually well funded but outside organisational bureaucracy.

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6Eklm TIL: The same night Marilyn Monroe sang “Happy birthday, Mr. President” to John F. Kennedy at Madison Square Garden, she reportedly gave him a Rolex Day-Date with the inscription “JACK, with love as always from MARILYN, May 29th 1962.” JFK told an aide to “get rid of it,”
gMJxD TIL Hippos sleep underwater even though they breathe air. They automatically close their nostrils and surface to breathe every 3-5 minutes. This all happens unconsciously, even in their sleep.
4Xv8b TIL Both Handel and Bach were blinded by a quack oculist named John Taylor, who travelled around Europe in a coach decorated with eyes and later died blind himself.
5VE9 TIL Russian and Japan still haven’t signed a peace treaty to end World War II
D1mBV TIL Wendy's founder Dave Thomas regretted using his daughter's name. Not long before he died he told his daughter: "I should've just named it after myself, because it put a lot of pressure on you."