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TIL when a script instructed Leonard Nimoy’s character, Spock, to punch someone, Nimoy felt punching was too undignified for a Vulcan and invented a way for Vulcans to render their opponents unconscious by pinching them. From that moment on, the Vulcan Nerve Pinch was born.

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nO5d TIL: “Go fever” is a term used by NASA to describe a few of their major disasters (Apollo 1/Challenger/Columbia). It describes a culture that develops when costs have mounted, and dissent is suppressed or ignored (due to group members not wanting to be seen as committed to the team’s progress).
ompo TIL Nelson Rockefeller died of a heart attack at age 70 while he was sleeping with his mistress, age 25
ZPVa TIL that through 50 years of experimentation investigating the domestication of wolves, scientists in the USSR (and later Russia) successfully domesticated the Silver Fox, a breed of foxes that behave like dogs
5Yb6Q TIL that James Buchanan was the only president of the USA to serve his term as a bachelor. He never married, and during his tenure the role of first lady was fulfilled by his niece, Harriet Lane.
5bjr TIL 49.2% of the population of Niger is under 15 years of age.