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Today I Learned of the Tulsa Center of the Universe. An acoustic anomaly located in Oklahoma. When one stands in the center of the circle and makes a noise, that noise is echoed back several times louder than it was made, but no one standing outside the circle can hear a thing.

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MeKEb TIL that the FBI investigated the movie "It's a Wonderful Life", when it was being made and eventually released, for being communist propaganda
gMKxy TIL that British politician Tony Benn met his wife in Oxford in 1949. 9 days later, he proposed to her on a park bench. Later, he bought the bench from Oxford City Council and installed it in the garden of their home. They were together for 51 years.
waV6 TIL that J. Edgar Hoover falsely claimed that a woman who “couldn’t plan breakfast” had been criminal mastermind and gang leader, after she was killed in a shootout between her son and the FBI. Hoover’s version of her inspired Ma Beagle in DuckTales, and Ma Fratelli in The Goonies.
xVBl7 TIL that while there are many theories for the origin of life, most of them fall into 1 of 4 kinds: 1) Supernatural event, 2) Life arises all the time, 3) Life has no "beginning," 4) Improbable chemical event.
l7RaB TIL that Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977) had 11 children in total and 7 of them are still alive. The youngest, Christopher Chaplin, is just 62 years old. Charlie Chaplin also had a half-brother, George Dryden, whose son would be the drummer for Jefferson Airplane.