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TIL There is an ISO standard for brewing a cup of tea. Ireland objected to it

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R7BR4 TIL in 1968 a group of Star Trek fans cornered William Sharner as he left 30 Rockefeller Plaza, and attempted to rip his clothes off. It is likely that this event stopped Shatner from attending Star Trek conventions for over a decade.
04Zp TIL that the first African American NFL player (Kenny Washington) and the first African American MLB player (Jackie Robinson), were on the same college football team at the same time.
wRZP TIL that Saudi Arabia has been ruled by the same family for longer than the United States has been a country
pAjQ TIL that renowned theoretical physicist David Bohm was not allowed to defend, or even write his own doctoral thesis because he didn’t have the security clearence
wL6M8 TIL about the "Wow! signal", the strongest candidate for an alien radio transmission ever detected, received in 1977, by the Big Ear radio telescope in Ohio.