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TIL Neil deGrasse Tyson is not an atheist.

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7rpxp TIL the US Govt. used shell companies to import Titanium from the Soviet Union, to build the Blackbird SR-71, so they could spy on the Soviet Union
VMd48 TIL that Stephen Fry accused catholic Poles of aiding the Nazis to kill Jews in Auschwitz. .
D19OJ TIL about the Mako Mori Test, an improved version of the Bechdel test which examines whether or not a work of fiction includes at least one female character with her own narrative arc which does not exist to support the narrative arc of a male character.
vPGgD TIL that Denmark has a 7-point grading system in schools where the grades are 12, 10, 7, 4, 02, 00 and -3
9wJ5X TIL darker skin people need more sunlight to make vitamin D. One experiment where a light skinned person was in sunlight for 8 hours saw their vitamin D concentration go up by 50x while a dark skinned person saw no change. They needed 5-10 times the sunlight length and then only saw a 30x change.