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TIL Elvis Costello's dad recorded an album covering Elvis Presley's hits.

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GYo77 TIL that Nichelle Nichols the original Lieutenant Uhura in Star Trek was a recruiter for NASA from the late 1970's until the late 1980's and many of her new recruits were women or members of racial and ethnic minorities
epR06 TIL that people in West Virginia have the same life expectancy as North Koreans
LQ5Qm TIL that 90% of video game sales in 2022 were digital.
6EL9Y TIL space smells like burnt steak. Astronauts have also reported space to smell metallic, or like gunpowder. Others have hypothesized that it could smell like raspberries.
mgBv TIL German nursing homes have fake bus stops to catch Alzheimer’s patients wondering off.