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TIL that a dungeon in the Vienna Hofburg Palace was used to confirm quantum entanglement

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rRXXo TIL that people with synesthesia can see sounds, taste words, for them hearing a person talk can trigger seeing colors, even letters can cause that effect.
W76Ld TIL it took world population over 2 million years to reach 1 billion, but only 207 more to grow to 7 billion.
l7eBG TIL the first American-born ace of World War II was Arthur T. Chin. An aviator in the Chinese Air Force during the second Sino-Japanese War, he became the first American-born ace in that war. Chin was born in Portland, Oregon.
j6xVN TIL: That the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission had planned to carve out an artificial harbor in Northern Alaska using buried nuclear explosions. The plan (Project Chariot) had a lot of public support and would have been carried out if the Inupiat village of Point Hope hadn't strongly opposed it.
NXBKM TIL, Daryl Hall met John Oates when they both took cover in an elevator from a gang shootout at a Philadelphia music hall