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TIL Space Ghost’s real first name is Thaddeus

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awmnJ TIL about a church located on what was formerly highway 666 in Ontario that asked the Ministry of Transportation to change the highway number so as not to be located on the 'Highway to Hell'.
a8VGN TIL that Mattiedna Johnson, born to Mississippi sharecroppers in 1918, used techniques she’d used to make things like butter, jam and soap on her childhood farm to develop techniques to capture and preserve molds for research that eventually helped in the development of drugs to fight scarlet fever.
4kr86 TIL there is a peak in Canada named after American president John F. Kennedy, called Mount Kennedy, in Yukon. It was named in his honour almost a year after his death, in 1964, and was specifically picked out by the Canadian government.
9wd6X TIL about bamboo torture, a method of torture where the victim is tied spread eagle above the ground, and a bamboo shoot is planted beneath them. The bamboo shoot grows very quickly and eventually will penetrate through the body of the victim.
rNYPe TIL wireless chargers make noise. When your phone is charging, an electromagnetic field is formed between the two, the coils inside the charger vibrate, creating electromagnetic waves. Those travel through objects and air to reach your ears within a certain distance.