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TIL Neil deGrasse Tyson tried updating Wikipedia to say he wasn’t atheist, but people kept putting it back

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0wV8v TIL in 1960 the US government formed a clandestine group of elite scientists called JASON. "The Jasons" meet in secret every summer and includes 11 Nobel Prize winners. Their report on the futility of tactical nuclear weapons may have saved a lot of lives during the Vietnam War.
4kDma TIL the first UPC-marked item ever to be scanned at a retail checkout was a 10-pack of Wrigley's Juicy Fruit chewing gum, purchased at the Marsh supermarket in Troy, Ohio, at 8:01 a.m. on June 26, 1974.
4kAd5 TIL During the 1966-1976 Irish Bank Strikes, the Irish economy essentially continued business as usual as a result of the trust and conversational personal contact circulating across local communities through the pubs.
R76X6 TIL that when South Korea was upset with North Korea over nuclear testing they blasted K-pop music over the border to annoy them and included the boy band hit “Bang Bang Bang.”
8e8VV TIL On June 12, 1970,"Pirates pitcher Dock Ellis did something that, by all rights, should be completely impossible: He went and threw a no-hitter despite being high as a kite on lysergic acid diethylamide, otherwise known as acid."