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TIL Less than half (~48.48%) of Reddit’s most popular links get noticed on their first submission to the site (Academic Paper)

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Kep9 TIL Only very tiny amounts of the chemical in trick noisemakers can be prepared at once, as even the weight of the crystals can cause them to self-detonate.
gO57 TIL Michael Jordan was not cut from his high school basketball team, instead he was placed on JV due to his coach’s “No sophomores on Varsity” rule.
jakX TIL That A Chicken Gun is a Cannon designed to fire dead chickens at aircraft to test their resilience against bird strikes
xVAPk TIL on 1955, after parishioners barred the Rev. Gerald Lewis, an African American priest, from celebrating Mass at St. Cecilia’s Chapel (Louisiana), Archbishop Joseph Rummel put this church under interdict, banning Masses and other sacraments from being celebrated
v1gVj TIL Gene Roddenberry lost control over Star Trek after TOS