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TIL that a ‘second’ on a clock is called that way because it is the second division of an hour in 60 increments (the first being minutes)

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Aeva TIL that Scrappy-Doo was first added to the cast of Scooby-Doo in 1979 to save the show from cancellation. Although the general consensus is that Scrappy-Doo is horrible, his addition boosted the show’s ratings enough to save it from being cancelled.
rNdK4 TIL early credit cards were launched in "drops", wherein banks would mail unsolicited cards to tens of thousands of customers at once. The banks then leveraged that customer base to get local stores to accept the cards. Over 100 million cards were distributed before drops were made illegal in 1970.
XELdX TIL: Post Malone once tried out for a metal core band called Crown The Empire in 2010 when he was just 15 years old. He was auditioning to be their guitar player but one of his strings broke and he did not make the band. He was in a high school band playing similar music.
epMjk TIL: That the Don McLean song "Vincent" was a particular favorite of the rapper and actor Tupac Shakur. The song was played to him at the University Medical Center of Southern Nevada, the hospital that he was admitted to just before he died of gunshot wounds from a drive-by shooting.
xVEKw TIL about the Thach Weave, a dogfighting maneuver developed in WW2 by the pilot John Thach. It allowed slower American planes to defeat their faster, more agile Japanese adversaries. It is still applicable today.