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TIL Laurie Metcalf played Sheldon’s mom in The Big Bang Theory and her daughter Zoe Perry played Sheldon’s mom in Young Sheldon

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VBo8k TIL if You Fell into a Black Hole You Would be "Spaghettified"
nWaAP TIL the term Guerrilla Warfare was coined during the Peninsula War (Napoleon era - 1807-1814) and is a reference to the Spanish word "guerrilla" (little war) which was used to refer to the partisans fighting against the French.
vP0xB TIL about Operation X-Ray, a WW2 program to develop an incendiary bomb attached to the chests of bats. Dropped in a tube over Japanese cities, it was thought that the bats would go to roost under the eaves of the largely wooden buildings, and when the timed devices went off, the cities would burn.
1akMX TIL in 1856 a group of prussian railroad workers stole all the silver coins from a barrel and replaced them with sand. A scientist analized samples of sand from every station on that line which led to their capture.
b9j4j TIL President Warren G. Harding once gambled away the entire White House china set in a card game