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TIL China has only navel and air force headquarters but not an army headquarter until 2015

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G44Q TIL Ken Kesey (Author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest) volunteered for MKUltra experiments involving LSD and other psychedelic drugs as a student, and inspired him to promote the drug outside of the experiments, which influenced the early development of hippie culture.
GYaM7 TIL the inability to recognise faces is called Prosopagnosia (face blindness).
Ooe71 TIL During the production of the music video for Peter Gabriel’s Sledgehammer, Peter Gabriel had to lay under a sheet of glass for 16 hours while the stop motion effects were animated one frame at a time.
X04RD TIL that the famous James Bond theme (first heard in 1962 in Dr. No) was source of a long running dispute between John Barry and Monty Norman. Norman had originally written a song for a musical adaptation of V. S. Naipaul's novel A House for Mr Biswas which was the inspiration.
x94b TIL that 15 year old John Gurdon’s teacher wrote that teaching him biology would be “a sheer waste of time, both on his part and of those who would have to teach him.” In 2012 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his pioneering work in developmental biology.