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TIL that SEAL Team Six was named so to confuse the Soviets about the actual number of SEAL Teams that were operating. At the time there were only two.

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5YgPR TIL women using oral contraceptives blink 32% more often than other women on average for unknown reasons.
wWGJ TIL I learned about Goodhart’s Law. Whenever we pick a measurement as an indicator for the economy (or for anything really), it ceases to be a good indicator. Because almost everyone is going to fudge their results to match it.
4kmoJ TIL the band iron butterfly didn't know they were being recorded in the studio for 17 minutes when they played their now-hit song In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida; it went on to sell 30 million times
yQGel TIL that in 1915, the lock millionaire Cecil Chubb bought his wife Stonehenge. She didn’t like it, so in 1918 he gave it to The United Kingdom.
ywMV TIL- 62% of Americans have less than 1000 dollars in their savings account.