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TIL Bacon in its earliest form was Invented in China

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1arXd TIL during the opening of 1936 Olympic,Adolph Hitler made a speech which was broadcasted in 41 countries.Due to the high frequency of the signal,it escaped the earth ionosphere.Carl Sagan wrote his book Contact,on alien-human encounter based on this platform that alien heard Hitlers voice first.
YpgjZ TIL - When the phone was first invented, Alexander Bell insisted that saying "Ahoy" was the correct way of answering the phone.
YGPr TIL that Charles Whitman, the Texas Tower shooter, asked for an autopsy to be done after his death to determine what made him kill. The autopsy found a tumor pressing on his amygdala, possibly influencing his actions.
J1myV TIL Tony Dalton (Lalo on Better Call Saul) hosted a Jackass-esque Mexican reality show in the early 2000s, which was cancelled when a 19-year-old contestant died of alcohol poisoning after being made to drink 40 shots of tequila.
dPkB TIL the company that created the cgi effects for the film Interstellar (2014) had to change their program because all effects software assumed light goes in a strait line.