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TIL actor Alan Alda teaches improv to scientists to help their public speaking

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0wG8j TIL Pentagon employees are banned from playing Pokemon go inside the building because the users' movements are inadvertently mapping the insides of the Pentagon for all to see.
oGyK TIL there was a pilot made for a MAS*H spin off, where Radar moved from Iowa to St. Louis and became a cop
NXgp6 TIL the Nordic European countries celebrate Fastelavn, alike halloween, which includes traditionally kids beating a barrel with a cat inside using a bat (not anymore), beg for money and candy and flog their parents with sticks
VrwD TIL of 3 men whom broke into a luxury store in Germany and ran off with $6.8M worth of jewelry. They left behind a piece of evidence, sweat. DNA analysis led to not one but two suspects- identical twins. They couldn’t determine from which one. They went free.
b9KW4 TIL Only 2% of NCAA athletes move on to the professional level.