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TIL: Two Bell Lab Employees ( aka AT&T ) found a “noise” while testing a new horn radio, unable to discover the source they pointed radio to space and found the same “white noise”, this led to the accidental discovery of Cosmic Background Radiation that confirmed the Big Bang Theory.

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Bmad TIL you are required in Svalbard to carry a rifle when leaving a settlement, in order to fend off polar bears
WyR4 TIL that cheerleaders are encouraged to wear shorter skirts for safety reasons as too much fabric can be dangerous while tumbling.
MeE50 TIL those giant cylinder towers at nuclear power plants are for cooling water.
N7dy8 TIL Bobby Fischer made the only perfect score in the U.S. Championship and went on to invent a modified chess timing system, which added a time increment after each move, now a standard practice in top tournament and match play.
dBnd TIL the song Fly Me to the Moon became the first music heard on the moon, when Buzz Aldrin played it on a cassette