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TIL David Koresh and the Branch Davidians set their own fires in their Waco Texas compound as a self-fulfilling prophecy, killing their own followers and children.

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VMQvp TIL At the Apollo 15 mission, David Scott performed a live demonstration where he held out a hammer and a feather and dropped them at the same time. Because they were essentially in a vacuum, there was no air resistance and the feather fell at the same rate as the hammer, as Galileo had concluded
gMwl8 TIL The NES game 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit' included a real phone number that players could call and hear a recording of Jessica Rabbit offering hints. The phone line was discontinued by 1990 and reassigned to a sex hotline some time before 2010. The original recording has since been lost.
7lyp TIL that Norman Borlaug (the father of the Green Revolution) learned that he received the Nobel Peace Prize while working in his wheat test plot in Mexico; he learned that he was outstanding in his field while he was out standing in his field.
WExd TIL that a Subaru production plant in Indiana produces less waste in a year than an average family of 4 does in a week. It is also the only manufacturing plant that is a designated wildlife habitat, co-existing peacefully with local wildlife.
7rdDL TIL Sony Ericsson went from having a net income of over 1.1 billion euros in 2007 to losing about 0.8 billion euros in 2009.