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TIL Steve Jobs is buried in an unmarked grave

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groDb TIL about Project Genetrix which was a United States Air Force program designed to launch General Mills manufactured surveillance balloons over China, Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union to take aerial photographs and collect intelligence.
nWrRG TIL about the "hand of glory" made from the hand of a hanged man. Europeans once made candles from the fat of the corpse of a criminal and placed it in the hand of glory, believing it would render motionless all persons to whom it was presented
rNOKd TIL Macaws have a bite pressure of around 600 psi. A German shepherds bite is around 235 psi, and a tiger shark is around 325 psi.
XrKQ TIL: Until 2009, India accounted for more than half of the world’s polio cases. It has now had three consecutive years without new polio cases.
OGr4 TIL in 1985 Jeff Goddard, a Domino’s Pizza franchisee, invented the Spoodle, a combination spoon/ladle that allowed him to win the World’s Fastest Pizza Maker competition. They are now in use throughout the food service industry