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TIL that in 1972 some of Aircraft Carrier USS Ranger’s crew carried out two-dozen acts of sabotage to prevent the ship from returning to Vietnam

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9Y1Gp TIL that when Paul McCartney from The Beatles met Koji Kondo, the composer of Super Mario Bros, he started singing the Overworld Background Music (aka the World 1-1 Theme) from the first game.
NXLrQ TIL The Greek Minister of Finance in 2013-2015 previously worked at Valve as their Game Economy analyst
EgY5o TIL the black hole at the center of the Perseus Galaxy Cluster emits data that NASA “sonified” so we can hear it.
R7Nw7 TIL that the first non-white person in the NBA was Wataru Misaka a 5’7” Japanese-American point guard. Drafted in 1947, he’s still alive and turns 95 today!
kO0em TIL that the Chinese equivalent of "when pigs fly" is "when the sun rises in the West." Other variants include "when the crayfish whistles" (Russian), "when the crow turns white" (Tagalog), "when the fish climbs the poplar" (Turkish), and "when it snows red snowflakes" (Hungarian).