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TIL Tom Morello; guitar player for bands like Audioslave and Rage Against the Machine, was the child of the very first elected president of Kenya

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Wkby4 TIL: In America, Squirrels have caused more power outages than cyber-criminals, with 9-21% of all outages across the country attributed to the.
pYj1A TIL about Wilusa, a city in northwest Anatolia referenced in several Hittite records, which some believe to be another name for the city of Troy.
o6M8 TIL that the shortest scientific paper ever published had zero words. A clinical psychologist Dennis Upper attempted an experiment: to combat writer’s block by writing about it. His experiment failed, but no results are results all the same, and the paper was published.
8eNWK TIL that in January 2023 the F-35 fighter aircraft still had 821 remaining problems. which is an improvement to the 826 problems it had April 2022. (page 73)
xAyw TIL Samhainophobia is the medical term for the irrational fear of Halloween. The root word is expressive of the ancient Celts who held a ceremony called Samhain in order to honor the harvest cycle.