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TIL that Speed Of Gravity Is Equal To The Speed Of Light

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aZEy TIL that the headphones/audio/electronics company Bose gets their name from their chairman, an Indian-American named Amar Bose. His father was an Indian freedom revolutionary, who fled Bengal to avoid persecution from the British colonial police.
kLQm TIL In 1932, a football player for Mesa High School was accidentally killed by a shotgun blast to the chest. As he neared death he said, “Tell coach and the boys to carry on.” Students began repeating the theme “Carry On” to one another, eventually becoming the school’s official motto.
QJ86L TIL that a dockyard worker burned down a Nuclear Attack Submarine in 2013 to go home from work early.
MeRmV TIL Edgar Allan Poe wrote Eureka, an obscure book, in 1848 in which he insisted that the universe began in "one instantaneous flash" - more than a century before astronomers hypothesized the Big Bang Theory.
MegG0 TIL Taylor Swift was born into wealth. Her father is "from three generations of bank presidents" and worked for Merrill Lynch. At the age of 14 her family moved to Nashville where her father purchased a stake in Big Machine, the label to which Swift first signed.