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TIL The Department of Energy sells rare isotopes online

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GAkwG TIL - Phrenology is a pseudo-science, where adherents think that measuring the bumps on peoples skulls can predict things about their mental traits
VBmXQ TIL that Avengers Endgame’s story was referenced off of Star Trek: TNG’s finale ‘All Good Things…’ and the sign off is lifted directly from the sixth Star Trek film ‘The Undiscovered Country’
kOWv5 TIL the first KFC restaurant was in Utah.
9jpr TIL of the Japan Air 123 accident, the deadliest single aircraft crash of all time. Crew could not control the plane so they used thrust to go up and down and differential trust to turn. It crashed after 32min. No simulation reconstruction held out as long as the crew did.
Yp0rW TIL Ismail Ibn Sharif, second ruler of the Moroccan Alaouite dynasty had 867 children, widely considered to be the record number of offspring that can be verified.