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TIL Rich Clifford had parkinsons disease and hid it from NASA to fulfill his dream of being an astronaut.

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NXmJ8 TIL Many of Benny Blanco's early tracks are at 120 BPM, the default tempo in Pro Tools, and he didn't realize he could adjust it, so he ended up using that tempo for many of his initial projects. This included hits like Kesha's "Tik Tok," Katy Perry's "Teenage Dream," and Taio Cruz's "Dynamite”
9rQ6 TIL that Nikola Tesla was an advocate of sterilizing criminals and people with mental problems, and he believed that by 2100 people who aren’t “desirable parents” shouldn’t be able to breed.
exvb TIL: That there are 468,749 Philadelphians on food stamps in a city of 1.5 million people.
jwln TIL that Salad Fingers animator David Firth had a satirical cartoon series removed from Newgrounds due to its lack of quality, this cartoon was later commissioned by the BBC for their website
XgRD TIL that 23 year old, Joe Arridy, a intellectually disabled man with an IQ of 46, was wrongfully executed in 1939. He was known for playing with his toy train that the prison warden gave him as a present while on death row. Guards and Inmates described him as “the happiest prisoner on death row”