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TIL, In 1963, George Harrison was asked by executives at a party if there were any decent groups to sign, he replied "you want to get The Rolling Stones"

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OovNg TIL the integral of the secant formula, important in cartography, has been found accidentally when a mathematician was running through numerical approximations known at the time and recognized they matched ln(|tan(phi/2 + pi/4)|). It took 28 more years for someone find a formal proof
BrljK TIL that in 2017, a Florida man who had written a self-help book about saving a marriage through communication, killed his wife and posted a picture of her dead body on Facebook.
wBD6 TIL in 1990 there was an anti-drug PSA called Cartoon All-Stars To The Rescue, about Bugs Bunny, Kermit the Frog, Slimer, Garfield, the Chipmunks, Michelangelo from TMNT, ALF, and other cartoons scaring the hell out of a 14-year-old marijuana addict. It aired all around the globe.
01oA TIL Wal-Mart employees across the country are planning to strike on Black Friday in what may be the biggest push for equitable wages that Wal-Mart has ever seen. Someofus.org is gathering donations to buy the employees grocery gift cards so they can still feed their families.
jNJgM TIL that in 1818 US began building a fort near the New York - Quebec border to defend against invasions from Canada.After 2 years of construction, they realized the fort was actually on the Canadian side.They abandoned it and nicknamed it Fort Blunder.