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TIL that high-speed Internet is available on the Moon.
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TIL that the Beatle’s song Blackbird is about a black woman during the civil rights era.
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TIL that Nathan "Nearest" Green, a slave, taught Jack Daniel how to brew whiskey. He became Daniel's Master Distiller, and is now known as "The Godfather of Tennessee Whiskey." His son George also became a Master Distiller and some of his descendants STILL work for Jack Daniel's Whiskey to this day.
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TIL The original Girl with the Dragon Tattoo DVD was designed to look like a pirated disc which convinced many purchasers that they bought an illegitimate copy
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TIL that Mithalal Sindhi, from the Indian city of Ahmedabad, has been hоmеless by choice (so he will be easier to find) for over 50 years, and during that time has performed the last rites on more than 550 unclaimed bodies, each per their own religion, covering all the expenses from his own earnings
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TIL that when Mt. Everest was found to be the tallest mountain on Earth at 29000ft (the estimate at the time), an extra 2 feet were added on top of the number because they feared if it was too round of a number, the public would think they had picked an arbitrary number.