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TIL George Carlin’s monologue about education, the American Dream and our ‘economy’ becomes truer and truer every day.

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7opp TIL in 1999, James Saville was arrested and charged with plotting to kill Maricopa County sheriff Joe Arpaio with a pipe bomb. Saville was acquitted four years later when it was discovered that Arpaio’s detectives had purchased the bomb parts themselves and framed Saville in a publicity stunt.
xrMB TIL Sony made a cassette tape that can store 185TB of data in 2014
KDlQ TIL: The oldest operating whiskey distillery in NYC is only 4 years old
wL4QJ Today I learned that “blue” didn’t exist in ancient times (e.g. it’s rarely used in the Bible, not used in the Iliad), and that in most languages “blue” is typically the last color word that evolves (red is usually first).
9OaQ TIL that a Spanish double-agent played a major role in hoodwinking the Nazis, paving the way for a successful Normandy campaign and the eventual surrender of the Germans in WW2.