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TIL The Smashing Pumpkins donated 100% of ticket sales for the ‘Adore’ tour in 1998 to local charities for each show, totaling $2.8 million

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Znvp TIL when congress asked physicist R.R. Wilson to justify the US government spending millions of dollars on a new particle accelerator (Fermilab), Wilson testified that the knowledge gained from it would have “nothing to do directly with defending our country except to help make it worth defending.”
oyaY TIL There’s an app in development that rewards people for not being on their phone and forces them socialise together
DQXDD TIL that when you click and hold a YouTube video it will fast forward 2x... how have I missed this for 15+ years?
lm1 TIL that through-wall radar exists which allows you to look at a 3d representation of people and objects through many materials including concrete block
5VJvP TIL about Nan Madol, historic capital of the Saudeleur Dynasty of Micronesia. It has been called the Venice of the Pacific for its multiple islands and channels.