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TIL David Tennant decided to become an actor because he loved the original Doctor Who series

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nW8aY TIL the origin of the phrase “government cheese”
aww8J TIL it takes 300 people, 12,000 parts, and one year to make a single Steinway & Sons piano.
Z8ZwR TIL Mummies are sometimes used in medicine to calibrate CAT scan machines
69bWW TIL about the Asch Conformity Experiment. If participants were the only one disagreeing, they often conformed to the group, even if the answer was clearly wrong. If just one other person agreed with them, conformity dropped significantly.
KYZr4 TIL of Claude Ruggieri who launched the first living animals into the air by rocket, returning them safely to earth by parachute. In 1830, French authorities stopped his attempt at the first human rocket flight when the test subject was found to be an 11 year old boy.