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TIL that when Prince died "Within three weeks of his death, 700 people claimed to be half-siblings or descendants."

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8aJeK Today I learned about how glamorous commercial aviation was before WWII, with inter-continental flights in the Pan-Am Clipper. As glamorous as taking a cruise ship, but in a plane that landed on water.
bYgE TIL in almost every adaptation of Dora the Explorer outside the US and UK, Dora teaches English, not Spanish.
QNNak TIL the the song “The Way” by Fastball is based on a real elderly couple from Salado, TX who went missing in June 1997 and later found dead at the bottom of a ravine near Hot Springs, AR a couple weeks later.
ADvVw TIL a study showed we are ingesting an amount of microplastics equivalent to the weight of a credit card each week. That is roughly 5 grams
BrMoL TIL George Lucas originally wanted to make an updated Flash Gordon movie, but no one took him seriously and he couldn't obtain the rights, so he made Star Wars instead.