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TIL that Jeff “Skunk” Baxter, formerly of Steel Dan and The Doobie Brothers, is now a defense consultant and chaired a Congressional Advisory Board on missile defense. He is self taught, and got into defense consulting as a hobby.

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yVPka TIL the tallest mountain in our solar system is Olympus Mons, a volcano on Mars that stands 22 km (14 miles) high, almost three times the height of Mount Everest.
a8wJ0 TIL that when naturalist Robert Plot discovered the first dinosaur fossils in 1677, he believed they belonged to giant humans that roamed the earth years ago. It wasn’t until 1824 when Oxford professor William Buckland concluded that the fossils belonged to an extinct lizard, the “Megalosaurus.”
0wbxv TIL the Beastie Boys have sold 20 million records in the United States, making them the biggest-selling rap group since Billboard began recording sales in 1991
7rQnX TIL: When a male Anglerfish finds a female, he bites into her skin, and releases an enzyme that digests the skin of his mouth and her body, fusing the pair down to the blood-vessel level
L7Jv TIL: The world’s oldest stash of marijuana was found in a 2,700 grave in western China. It belonged to a blue-eyed Caucasian man who was a local shaman.