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TIL that when the NFL football team Seattle Seahawks invited a retired 4 star general to their facility, Seattles head coach Pete Carroll blitzed him with questions about whether the 9/11 attacks “had been planned or faked” by the government.

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epBvk TIL Ronald Reagan would eat jelly beans to help him quit smoking. He had over 300 thousand jelly beans shipped to the White House each month, he would give them away to visitors and staff regularly. His favorite flavor was black licorice and there are special "Jelly Belly Ronald Reagan" packs.
D1Dav TIL that the Portuguese Man o’ War is actually technically not a jellyfish. It’s actually a bunch of smaller organisms that can’t survive on their own and work together to function as one animal.
J1PNl TIL Albert Einstein credited the writing of 18th century philosopher David Hume --who argued that universal time independent of an observer’s viewpoint doesn’t exist -- as key to helping him formulate his theory of special relativity.
KYyDB TIL Due to Chinese cultural beliefs about mental illness and intellectual disability, Chinese people may consider an autistic child as a 'bad seed' and a disgrace to their family. Parents may deny that their child is autistic or keep the autistic child as a family secret
7KdM TIL that the world’s largest honey bee, the Himalayan Cliff Bee, produces hallucinogenic honey.