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TIL mathematicians proved that the universe maybe conscious

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J1jjB TIL President Dwight D. Eisenhower gave a farewell speech that warned the U.S citizens about a military industrial complex In 1961
awlRb TIL that songwriter Robert Sherman was struggling to write a catchy song for Julie Andrews to sing in Mary Poppins. When Robert's son received the polio inoculation, and he discovered the medicine was put on a sugar cube, he was inspired to write "A Spoonful of Sugar Helps the Medicine Go Down."
wdEo TIL That the more successful Roman gladiators endorsed products before commencing a fight and would have their names on the Roman equivalent of billboards.
gJ79 TIL Muhammad Suharto the former President of Indonesia is considered the worlds most corrupt head of state due to embezzling between $15-35 billion during his 32-year presidency
X0xer TIL the reason "0" is not placed before "1" on phone keypads stems from rotary phones, which encoded digits by generating electrical pulses as the wheel spun back. "1" created one pulse and "0" ten pulses. Zero was placed at the end to allow the wheel its longest return rotation.