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TIL that Nikola Tesla fell in love with a pidgeon.
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TIL that after acting as his own attorney and being found guilty, a North Carolina man appealed his conviction on the basis that he did not receive "effective assistance of counsel" (i.e. himself). His appeal was denied.
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TIL that nearly all of what we see as lightning is the current returning to the cloud from the ground. It appears to be coming from the cloud because it is illuminating the bolts that didn't reach the ground
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TIL that two thirds of Denmark’s income used to come from charging people to enter or leave the Baltic sea, those that refused to pay were sunk
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TIL In the 1970s, the New Mexico Dept. of Game and Fish introduced 93 gemsbok (an African gazelle) to the White Sands Missile Range. Today, they number 3,000-6,000.
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TIL, NSFW: A Playboy Centerfold was the standard test image by which graphic designers measured and compared advances in color, transitions, uniform regions, sharp edges, and electronic transmission.