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TIL, NSFW: A Playboy Centerfold was the standard test image by which graphic designers measured and compared advances in color, transitions, uniform regions, sharp edges, and electronic transmission.

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kbZm TIL that the vault at Fort Knox has an escape tunnel in case somebody gets locked in.
KOQwR TIL when Spartans lost the battle of Megalopolis, their king Agis III, now wounded and unable to stand, ordered his men to leave him behind to face Macedonian army so that he could buy his men time to retreat. He slew several enemy soldiers before being finally killed by a javelin.
l7KKG TIL that the smallest type of black holes are called primordial black holes and they can be as small as a single atom but with a mass of a large mountain
aya0 TIL there are approximately the same number of calories in a pound of spinach as there are in two Oreos.
D1X4g TIL in 1968, Joachim Foikis received a $3500 grant from the Canada Council for the Arts to dress up in a jester’s outfit and "mock the four pillars of society: money, status, respectability, and conformity". He served as Vancouver's official Town Fool for two years.