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TIL “The Learning Channel” was originally founded in 1972 by the Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare and NASA

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d8rn9 Today I Learned that all NHL teams have a unique and different horns for goals, most of which are from large boats, trucks, and one from a train.
x6400 TIL Jamais Vu is the opposite of Déjà Vu. Instead of feeling like you’ve experienced something before, a familiar experience feels like a new one.
Wm5N TIL that in Great Britain, calling something “bollocks” (testicles) is a criticism but calling something “the dog’s bollocks” is a compliment.
b9EAN TIL Hitler offered to trade a million Jews for material goods, including 10,000 trucks. The Jews would have been allowed to go to any Allied country except Palestine, as Hitler had promised the Grand Mufti no Jews would settle in Palestine. The offer was rejected.
8a7dZ TIL about rubber duck debugging, where programmers work out problems in their code by explaining them out loud to a rubber duck