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TIL Klingons have two dicks
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TIL that the bottom of Converse “All Star” sneakers are covered with felt so that they classify as slippers, and therefore command a lower import tariff.
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TIL that after the 9/11 attacks, Clear Channel Communications distributed a suggested song ban list for its 1,200 radio stations. Included on the list are “Imagine” by John Lennon and all of Rage Against the Machine’s songs.
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TIL when you pull Sellotape off the roll, high energy X-rays are emitted. Sometimes, enough are given off that an X-ray image of the users finger could be produced.
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TIL about Leonhard Euler (1707-1783) who not only popularised the use of lower case Pi to denote the ratio of a circle's circumference to it's diameter, but was also the first to use "i" to denote the square root of -1. The constant "e", the base number in a natural logarithm is the Euler Number
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TIL There is a place in California where the Dead outnumber the Living by 1000 to 1. Colma, California was founded as a Necropolis in 1924. The population of dead people is over 1.5 million. Also known as "City of the Silent"