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TIL Whale Fossils have been found on top of the Andes mountains

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R7756 TIL Harvard’s first black faculty member was a dentist. Dr. George Franklin Grant joined the Dept of mechanical dentistry in 1871. Also an inventor, he patented the wooden golf tee. Previously, golfers carried around buckets of sand, placing their balls on little piles as they went.
lwaV TIL, in 2013, an expedition to recover bodies from a tugboat sunk at 30 meter depth, found one survivor trapped in an air bubble, in pitch black, after 3 days
nWE4r TIL with a "Constant Acceleration" space ship, at 1G acceleration you could travel the diameter of the milky way (105,000 Light years) in a short 12 years.
N0xQ TIL That there is a 5 dollar fine for anyone on staff at the Top Gun school who quotes the movie
ANoka TIL that in ‘98 J.J. Abrams and the director of Cloverfield created a TV show about a young woman going to college called Felicity. It lasted four seasons and ends with a five-episode long time travel arc.