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0w5dv TIL in 1898 during the Spanish-American war, Nikola Tesla once invented a remote controlled boat he thought could end warfare.
5YRV9 TIL: An FBI file says (pg.34) a "clairvoyant" (name redacted) claimed the space shuttle Challenger explosion was the work of NASA-employed "local conspirators" in security whose addresses she gave. Checks found "none of the current security employees, or recent dismissals" lived in the general area.
QRnd TIL that there was a congressional inquiry concerning the implied sexual relationship between Batman & Robin.
MgJK TIL, that psychologist Dr. John Gottman, created the magic ratio of 5:1. That a relationship is likely to be stable if there are five times as many positive interactions between partners as there are negative.
1RlO TIL After Ben Franklin lost his 4 year old son to Smallpox, he became an advocate for Inoculation, and stated in his autobiography: “I long regretted bitterly, and still regret that I had not given it to him by inoculation.“