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TIL Barbara Bach has been married to Ringo Starr, formerly of the Beatles, since 1981.

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ANm4 TIL newgrounds.com originated in 1991 as a NeoGeo fanzine run by then 13 year old Tom Fulp
6Eowm Today I Learned that there's an event in Hawaii called Lahaina Noon, where the sun passes directly overhead.
neWjo TIL that when NASA sent out the Voyager spacecrafts in 1977, two golden records were included aboard which contained images, coded diagrams and sounds — including a message from President Carter — that portrayed life and culture on Earth in case any intelligent alien life form found the spacecrafts.
gM078 TIL the thousands of monkeys in the Lopburi province of Thailand are split in two gangs: temple and city monkeys. The monkeys rely on tourists for food but due to the lack of tourism, the monkeys are starving and have taken to waging large scale 'gang wars' over as little as a single banana.
Edg7 TIL That in 2006 one of Saddam Hussein’s Generals who defected wrote a book about the operation to move WMDs from Iraq to Syria before the US invasion.