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TIL an ad agency successfully defeated a Tea Party push to defund and close a public library by pretending to be a Tea Party-ish organization called Safeguarding American Families, that was throwing a “Book Burning Party” to celebrate the library’s closing

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v1kn4 Today I learned about Time Crystals, discrete crystals that have a structure that repeats in time, causing them to resist entropy.
AD66l TIL about CRAF, the Civil Reserve Air Fleet. It requires some airlines to reserve a portion of their fleet for military deployments that are on-call & ready within 24-48hrs, should demand exceed military resources. Lately, it is one of the reasons why the govt. will continue bail out the airlines.
LoVP TIL In 1907 Joseph Stalin said at the funeral of his first wife, “This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity.”
xV96g TIL: The phrase "[murdered] in cold blood" doesn't refer to someone being cruel. It refers to the killer having had time to think over the crime and still do it in a calculated way. As opposed to doing it in the "heat of passion", their blood had time to cool before they committed the crime.
x6B9g TIL that Mozart wrote a song called "Lick me in the arse".