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TIL: In the 1960’s The FAA intentionally created 1200+ Sonic Booms over Oklahoma City in a six-month span to test the effect on residents and wildlife in anticipation of commercial supersonic flight

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gMp09 TIL when we set one specific goal, people will tend to optimize for that objective regardless of the consequences. This is also known as Goodhart’s Law which says, “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.”
e0A8L TIL that lack of sleep can contribute to the end of your marriage because according to this study results if both partners got less than seven hours of sleep the previous two nights, the couple was more likely to "argue or become hostile."
60Xm TIL that during the Second Angle-Afghan War, Afghan women would use an execution method against the British where they would prop the soldiers mouth open to prevent swallowing and then take turns urinating into the soldiers mouth to drown him with urine
YK6d TIL the album Smash by The Offspring has sold over 11 million copies worldwide making it the best-selling independent label album of all time.
MXJb TIL Maximillian Kolbe, a Catholic Priest, gave his life for a man he had never met in Auschwitz. He stated “I am an old man, no one will miss me. He has a wife and family. Take me instead.”