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TIL there was a second attack on Pearl Harbor in March of 1942

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PyZ TIL Jamie Foxx was such a good joke teller his second grade teacher used him as a reward- be good and Jamie will perform for us.
X85D TIL Fifteen years ago, an amateur astronomer discovered an asteroid that turned out to be part of an Apollo rocket that disappeared 30 years earlier.
Me070 TIL that Texas Instruments invented the silicone transistor, the semiconductor, transistor radio, and TTL chips. They’re also 192nd on the Fortune 500 list, with a worth of $100 billion, and only 3% of their annual revenue comes from the calculators we always associate with them.
8aOeL TIL of Oymyakon - the coldest village on earth. The lowest temperature was recorded in January 1924 of −71.2 °C (−96.2 °F). It is known as "The Pole of the Cold". Food includes the frozen raw Arctic fish, white salmon, whitefish, frozen raw horse liver, but they are considered to be delicacies.
x6BXD TIL about the Dubbed Ghost Stories animation. Voice actors were told "do whatever it took to sell the show." Whoever got in the studio first set the tone/subject for the scene, which the other cast members had to follow. This produced a dub full of random fourth-wall-breaking jokes