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TIL Skip Holtz, son of legendary NCAA Coach Lout Holtz and current La Tech Head football coach wrote the script for 'The Cable Guy'

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6E9Rm TIL of the Muscadins, "mobs of young men, relatively well-off and dressed in a dandyish manner;" Parisian street fighters who suppressed the remnants of the Reign of Terror.
8a40Z TIL LL Bean (a retailer) ended its lifetime return policy due to abuse of the program. An increasing number of people purchased products from Goodwill or Salvation Army in order to return them, to get better products or gift cards.
1k6d TIL we have a good idea of what other planets would smell like based on their atmospheric composition. Venus and Mars would smell like rotten eggs, while Uranus is odorless.
ep0XE TIL about the "Condor Cluster" that was unveiled in 2010 by the U.S. Air Force unveiled a supercomputer cobbled together with 1,760 PS3s that were to be used for radar enhancement, pattern recognition, satellite imagery processing, and artificial intelligence research.
4Xy0N TIL Hong Kong has a color-coded warning system for rain