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TIL Space Shuttle Discovery has a unique “teardrop shape” on its windshield tiles due to an unusual and unknown error.

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Y7P77 TIL about Ramon Berenguer IV who was born in 1198. He and his wife Beatrice had four daughters. They became the Queens of France, England, Sicily and The Holy Roman Empire. The couple were also huge supporters of troubadours.
ANWbd TIL that 15 birds would perish at the McCormick Place, the largest convention centre in the US, on a typical evening
BRDx TIL The US consumes 99% of Vicodin in the world.
0Xvj TIL: The United States top export to China is Garbage
yZ6e TIL in 1976, then 16-year-old “Weird” Al Yankovic started his career by handing a homemade tape of original and parody songs performed on the accordion in his bedroom into a “cheesy little tape recorder” to Dr Demento, a radio DJ who was speaking at his school.