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Today I Learned that there are more possible orders of a deck of cards than there are atoms on Earth. Because of this, 99.7% of the time you shuffle a deck of cards, that is the first time in history that specific order of cards has happened.

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d8WM8 TIL that when Miley Cyrus allowed Disney to use her name, Miley, in the Show Hannah Montana, Disney took legal ownership of it. Miley no longer owned her own first name.
BrwEW TIL Lemmings do not engage in mass suicidal dives off cliffs when migrating. This misconception was popularized by the Disney film White Wilderness, which shot many of the migration scenes on a large, snow-covered turntable in a studio. Photographers later pushed the lemmings off a cliff
ADN17 TIL that despite US denial for 26 years, eight members of the Alabama Air National Guard volunteered to pose as Cuban rebel pilots during the Bay of Pigs invasion. Of these 8, 4 were killed when promised air cover never arrived, with two of the pilots dying in a firefight after being shot down.
J1KXQ TIL about “The Asoh Defense”, a term used for taking the blame when you're at fault. It’s named after a Japanese pilot named Kohei Asoh, who crash landed a full passenger jet in the San Francisco Bay in 1968. When asked what happened, he said: “As you Americans say, I f-cked up.”
e0Lbg TIL cows are often fed chicken litter which contains chicken poop, and chickens are often fed crushed bone meal, which can be crushed cow bones, and all this can lead to the spread of mad cow disease