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TIL pus is white blood cells that died fighting off infection.

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wLRa7 TIL that at the age of 10, a boy named Alexander Bell asked his father if could have a middle name. As a result, on his 11th birthday, he became Alexander Graham Bell of telephone fame.
AEDg TIL Elmer McCurdy was mummified and used as a stage prop for 26 years before people realized his corpse was a real body
P155Z TIL of the Galileo Spacecraft, which deployed a probe to penetrate Jupiter's atmosphere. The probe was going over 106,000 mph when it reached Jupiter, fast enough to travel from LA to NYC in 90 seconds. The probe transmitted data from within Jupiter for about an hour before pressure crushed it.
W7woN TIL; The title, "October Sky", of the 1999 biographical movie about teens studying rocketry as an escape from their coal town was an anagram of the novel it was based on, "Rocket Boys". The novel was then re-released under the title "October Sky" to capitalize on the interest in the movie.
BvdW TIL The Simpsons’ “Bart prank calls Moe’s Tavern” is a reference to two guys who used to prank call a bar in Jersey City and became famous for the recordings