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TIL Waffle House gives out music awards for the most-played songs on their jukeboxes

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OoBgX TIL we aren't allowed to excavate the area the Graecopithecus (human's oldest direct ancestor) fossil was found because the owner of the property built a swimming pool on it.
PYvEJ Today I learned that the demand for mummies outstripped supply causing people to make fakes out of newer corpses in order to make a paint called Mummy Brown.
YpXZP TIL : British Submarines carry the Jolly Rodger because a First Lord Sea Admiral said that submarines are ""underhanded, unfair, and damned un-English" and their sailors should be hanged as Pirates
v14D7 TIL the color of the Sun is a composite of all visible frequencies of light which makes it perfectly white. We see it yellow because of the Earth's atmosphere. In space the sun looks white.
EaJp TIL Theodore Roosevelt was the first U.S. President to fly in a plane - and he nearly fell out. He described it as ‘the bulliest experience of this life’