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TIL: Starbuck's door handles are more germ-laden than NYC subway poles

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L9Bp TIL Chuck Berry’s classic song “Johnny B. Goode” is included on the Golden Record of both Voyager space probes.
NXo46 TIL that Second Class Titanic survivor Rosa Pinsky (Róża Pińska, or Pinskaya), a Polish Jew, is believed to have been killed in a concentration camp during WWII
kJBo1 TIL that Mumbai (then known as Bombay) was a Portuguese colony before it came under British rule as part of the dowry of Catherine of Braganza, (daughter of King John IV of Portugal) in her marriage to King Charles II.