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TIL that "Cybernetics" doesn't necessarily imply robots, rather it is the science of studying control in communication systems

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56pp TIL that the “Baseball T-shirt” sleeve style was originally designed to provide freer arm movement to benefit sword fighting.
drEZ TIL in 1955, Hugh Hefner agreed to publish in Playboy a short story about straight men being persecuted in a world where homosexuality was the norm. In response to the criticism, Hefner replied, “If it was wrong to persecute heterosexuals in a homosexual society then the reverse was wrong, too.”
dDAXZ TIL instead of Valentine's Day, Romanians celebrate "Dragobete" on February 24th. It's a celebration of spring and love, on the day when birds (supposedly) start nests.
kJOJ7 TIL, Simon Cowell’s first job in show business was cleaning Jack Nicholson’s ax on the set of “The Shining”
517D TIL that by law in Queensland, Australia, a Koala may only be cuddled 30 minutes per day, and must have every third day off.