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Today I learned that Pet Detectives are actaullay real!

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ZkWQ TIL: If you’re 18-43, healthy and can stick a cotton swab in your mouth, you can join the National Bone Marrow Registry for free, and maybe, save a life.
edKL TIL The space shuttle Challenger explosion did not immediately kill the crew. The undamaged crew compartment broke free and continued to gain altitude to a peak of 65,000 feet before beginning a 2 minute 45 second free-fall into the Atlantic ocean.
OodV1 TIL that Stephen King threatened bookstore chain B. Dalton with a recall of all his books if they didn't put Salman Rushdie's 'The Satanic Verses' back on sale.
0yGL TIL that in 1964 while federal authorities were searching for 3 civil rights workers presumed murdered by the KKK in Mississippi their search yielded the remains of another 8 blacks that had been murdered by the KKK including a 14 year old boy.
Brd8d TIL: There is a basketball court that sits above the Supreme Court on the 5th floor named "The Highest Court in the Land"