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TIL: The Secret of NIMH was inspired by a real experiment with rats at the National Institute of Mental Health which suggests society will always collapse when it gets too big.

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78r0O TIL Uber developed a secret program called "Greyball" to avoid lawsuits, Uber would try to identify government officials and give them a fake version of the Uber app that showed inaccurate information about driver locations and didn't allow any rides to be hailed.
1ar7r TIL when the U.S. refused to sell jet fighters to them in the early 80s due to treaties and pressure from China, Taiwan developed and produced their own, the Indigenous Defense Fighter (IDF).
N7EP TIL Mike from “Breaking Bad” began his acting career in an education film on menstruation and puberty in the mid-70’s (go to 1:10)
N79RM Today I learned the Alligator Gar is the largest of the gar species and named after the American alligator. It can grow up to 10 feet long. Alligator gar have the ability to breath water as well as air. Their fossil record traces back to 100 million years which was the cretaceous period.
R7pwQ TIL a man was snorkeling off the coast of South Africa when an enormous Bryde's whale scooped him up in his mouth headfirst. The man felt pressure on his body but soon realized he was too big for the whale to swallow him whole which was "kind of an instant relief." The whale spat him out unharmed.