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TIL that 1.3 million Americans have a Top Secret security clearance

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AQY7 TIL the world record for non-stop Pushups: 10,507 by Minoru Yoshida, 33 years ago!
x4E5 TIL that the archived materials from Helen Keller’s life were destroyed by the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center.
xWDw TIL that H.R. Giger refused to give the xenomorphs from Alien eyes because “It’s scarier if you don’t know where they’re looking”.
nYPG TIL that Michigan has a bottle deposit of 10 cents, instead of the usual 5 cents. Their recycle rate is 97%, compared to 70% of states with bottle deposits, compared to 33% for states without any deposit laws.
Z8NvQ TIL astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell, who as a student discovered pulsars, credits her discovery to impostor syndrome and a fear of being kicked out of college; “I’m a bit of a fighter, so I decided until they threw me out I would work my very hardest". That discovery earned the 1974 Nobel Prize.