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TIL Gatorade + Beer was sold as Hop’n Gator, in the 70’s.
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TIL in the early 80s there was a wheat field in downtown NYC
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TIL that a study found that spoilers don’t ruin stories. In fact, “…subjects who had the story ‘spoiled’ enjoyed the story more than the subjects who didn't know the ending in advance.”
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TIL how much we owe to John B. Goodenough - On the teams that invented RAM, Lithium Ion Batteries, and now Solid State Batteries. Nobel Laureate. This guy is a rock star. Still working at 97 years old.
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TIL that although being a famous runaway wedding destination the Scottish town of Gretna Green has the dubious honour of holding the worst rail disaster in British History. With the precise death toll never established (but believed to be 226) those killed were mainly heading for Gallipoli.
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TIL the rendering of the Death Star plans in the original Star Wars was created by two students using computers at JPL. The writers and staff planned to thank JPL in the credits, until one programmer pointed out that JPL didn't even know their computers had been used.