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TIL through magnetic imaging resonance you can determine the intentions of another person before they make an action. Real world Minority Report

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YQXr TIL that the US Secret Service has an SUV with anti-IED jammers and anti-missile radar in the presidential motorcade. It is believed that if a rocket is detected, infrared smoke grenades are detonated while the president’s driver activates a thermal-imaging driving system to escape.
VBQw4 Today I learned that Gene Simmons from the band Kiss was flattered to find out that he has a Pokémon lookalike.
XEMQ6 TIL that the Book of Mormon tells of things like cattle, donkeys, steel, silk, elephants, and wheat in Pre-Columbian America. None of them existed in America before the 1500’s.
PY81O TIL Being Clean Shaven Was Popularized By Alexander The Great Because He Couldn't Grow A Proper Beard
d8yxK TIL Philosopher C. D. C. Reeve recently translated the works of Aristotle into a new series. "He has managed to present Aristotle’s often ungainly Greek into perfectly flowing English syntax without sacrificing the core meaning of the text"