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TIL the dad from “That’s So Raven”, Rondell Sheridan, was extremely glad when he found out Christopher Dorner was dead because they look so much alike, Rondell says he was legitimately scared to go out in public.

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m1vrE TIL the CIA funded the exhibition of modern art in Europe in the 1940s-60s in order to wage a cultural war on the Soviet Union. Via the Rockefeller Foundation and MOMA, the US government funded abstract expressionist exhibitions believing that they represented a counterpoint to Soviet realism style
wL4b8 TIL the phenomenon of wind throb from an open car window is called Helmholtz resonance, and is the same thing occurring when you blow across an open bottle to produce a tone.
wLoB7 TIL of Anti-flash white, a brilliant white color applied to nuclear bombers to reflect some of the thermal radiation from a nuclear explosion, protecting the aircraft and its occupants
QJOPE TIL When Capcom suggested Jean-Claude Van Damme to play all-American character Guile in the Street Fighter movie, the director said "What about his accent?" Capcom responded "What accent?" unaware he had one as all his films were dubbed in Japanese
newed TIL Great white sharks rarely survive in captivity. Experts suspect being surrounded by glass might either confuse or overload the shark's electroreception system, which is used to sense the electrical signals given off by fish in the open ocean, not necessarily inside a glass box.