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TIL, acclaimed novelist Kurt Vonnegut loved the TV show Cheers, even claiming, "I'd rather have written 'Cheers' than anything I've written" (#9 on the list)

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NXeG6 TIL The first nascar race on pavement was won by a margin of 9 laps, because Johnny Mantz elected to put more durable truck tires on his car instead of racing tires.
oR5nK TIL about Famadihana, a funerary tradition of Madagascar. People bring forth the bodies of their ancestors from the family crypts, rewrap them in fresh cloth, and rewrite their names so they will always be remembered. The practice is thought to be connected to pneumonic plague transmission
worP6 TIL that in the 19th Century, Rudolf Lindt, of the famous Lindt chocolate family, accidentally invented the crucial step of "conching" chocolate – rolling the warm cocoa mass to make it smooth and reduce its acidity – by leaving a cocoa mass mixer running overnight.
1aRP4 TIL during the Berlin air-lift, one USAF pilot secretly air-dropped candy to the kids below, rocking his plane so they'd know it was him flying overhead. They called him "Uncle Wiggly Wings".
7rO7M TIL the first man to get an implanted heart pacemaker in 1958 had it replaced with 21 subsequent models.