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TIL according to the FBI Director, the FBI is having a hard time filling positions to help tackle cyber crimes because a lot of the nation’s top computer programmers and hacking gurus are also fond of marijuana.

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kOrp5 TIL Stirling Colgate, heir to the Colgate toothpaste family fortune, was a physicist who proposed the use of satellites for detection of nuclear weapons testing. He went on to conduct research that helped Chandrasekhar win a Nobel Prize after realizing that the satellites were detecting supernovae.
1adv4 TIL Iguanas can voluntarily stop their hearts for up to 45 minutes to avoid sonic detection by sharks.
gMv1b TIL that Chicago was called "Swedens second biggest city" in the beginning of the 20th century, having the largest swedishborn population in the world after Stockholm.
QJVAk TIL about Australian Aborigine avoidance practices; these are social distancing rules that precludes in-laws from having direct contact and a policy of not naming the deceased which can last a period of between 12 months to several years.
P1Y6e TIL that resistance laundresses used super itching powder on German underwear and uniforms developed by the British SOE.