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TIL: Kenan Thompson is the longest tenured SNL member ever

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v1wMx TIL that CNN correspondent Sanjay Gupta is a neurosurgeon and stepped in to perform emergency surgery on US soldiers and Iraqi civilians while reporting on the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and on a 12 year old Haitian girl while reporting in Haiti following the 2010 earthquake.
aV60 TIL that dietary imbalances are a far greater cause of cancer than chemical exposure
W77PL TIL that most of the heat a spacecraft encounters re-entering earth’s atmosphere is caused by compression, not friction.
PYR9V TIL Phoenix, AZ used to be full of canals built by indigenous peoples
R5k08 TIL in 1964 Texas Instruments, popularly known for creating the TI-84 graphing calculator, created the first laser guidance system for precision guidance munitions, intended for use on F-4 Phantom fighter jets in Vietnam. The company sold its defense business to Raytheon in 1997.