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TIL China's rival to Starlink is called SkyNet, the same name of the Terminator's franchise AI system that conquered the world.

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BrGKr TIL that before enlisting in the navy, John F. Kennedy had a brief stint at Stanford business school before dropping out, commenting that he “had become very fond of Stanford. Everyone is friendly—the gals are quite attractive—and it’s a very good life.”
GYMjj TIL that Robert Oppenheimer, "the father of the atom bomb" and the head of the Manhattan Project, once tried to poison his advisor for making him do experimental work instead of theoretical physics.
OlG1 TIL In 1838, Edgar Allen Poe wrote a novel about a shipwreck where three survivors ate the fourth survivor, a cabin boy named Richard Parker. In 1884, there was a real shipwreck, in which three survivors ate the fourth survivor, a cabin boy named Richard Parker.
dDVlB TIL a majority of the people Christopher Walken interacted with as a child were non-native English speakers, including his father. Walken attributes his unique halting speaking style to watching people hesitate to think of the right English word.
jdAp TIL the intro to “Iron Man” was achieved by having Ozzy Osbourne sing through a spinning fan. When the Guitar Hero team wanted to record a cover of the song, they bought the same model of fan through Craigslist to duplicate the effect.