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TIL that the Heaviside Layer, best known for having to do with reincarnating cats in the musical "Cats," is real, and is the reason why you can hear further radio stations at night.

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YkxG TIL that men’s shirt buttons are the right and women’s are on the left because typically men dressed themselves whereas women were dressed by servants (who could more easily button from their right).
aMeA TIL: That the IRS requires you to declare sources of illegal income (i.e selling drugs) but they can’t prosecute you for the activity.
OoD4Y TIL David “Carbine” Williams, who helped invent the M1 Carbine, was a convicted murderer and created innovative gun ideas while in jail. He was convicted of the shooting of a sheriff who busted his illegal moonshine still. He was released after his family argued his inventions could help America.
OGD57 TIL of Rod Temperton, the man who wrote Thriller for Michael Jackson
xAWw TIL the Oscar nominated documentary “Liberators” narrated by Denzel Washington, interviewing African American soldiers who liberated Buchenwald concentration camp was pulled by PBS when an investigation showed no African American GI’s played a role in the liberation of Buchenwald.