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TIL - Target has become so proficient at analyzing customers buying habits that they can predict a female customers pregnancy and due date with an 87% accuracy

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brNE TIL that the longest continuous experiment was started in 1927. The goal was to demonstrate that some substances that appear to be solid are in fact very-high-viscosity fluids. The viscosity of the pitch used is 230 billion times that of water, taking several years to form a single drop.
gr9d9 TIL: That Muhammad Ali had Irish ancestry and visited the country on a number of occasions. In 2009, he took time out to visit Ennis in County Clare, the home town of his ancestor Abe Grady whereupon he was also made first honorary freeman of the town.
Agw7 TIL Wikipedia has fewer errors per content length than Britannica.
awYVo TIL about the Zwentendorf Nuclear Power Plant, Austrias first power plant that was build in the 70s for nowadays 1.4 billion euros, completed, but never went into operation because it was stopped last minute by a referendum with 50.5% against it. Now it is a training station & tourist attraction.
yQd8v TIL about "Bald–Hairy" a Russian political joke based on the observation that the nation's presidents consistently alternate hair types (ie Lenin was bald, Stalin had hair, Khruschev was bald, Brezhnev had hair.)