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TIL VLC Media Player uses a traffic cone as it’s logo because the students who created the program had a traffic cone collection.

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a8Qjb TIL that James Brown’s mother was half-Asian and his father was half-Native American
l6G7 TIL that plastics don’t dry in the dishwasher because they don’t have enough mass to get hot enough to evaporate water during the drying cycle, like glass and ceramics do.
o4lK TIL if you bake garlic in the oven for an hour it becomes spreadable like butter
xVnMD TIL that when Ronald E. Rosser lost one of his brothers in Korea, he enlisted to get revenge and would end up earning the Medal of Honor. When another brother was killed in Vietnam, he once again volunteered to fight but was turned down.
5VBJ8 TIL about a nun who, bored with monastic life and wanting “carnal” desires, faked her own death to escape, colluding with other nuns and creating a dummy of her that was buried. She was later found in a neighboring town living “indecently.” It’s unknown if she ever returned to the nunnery