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TIL In place of bands or songs you can use a comedian’s name as the basis of your Pandora station in order to hear stand-up.

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VMoZ4 TIL the Canadian province of Alberta has effectively prevented rats from spreading there, and it's even illegal to have a pet rat
7rvkO TIL all of the reindeer depicted at Christmas time with antlers are female as male reindeer would have already shed them.
pYmBA TIL that in 1956, the US Air Force lost control of an unmanned drone and tried to shoot it down. Jet fighters fired 208 rockets at the drone. They all missed; the rockets started fires on the ground, and the drone crashed by itself when it ran out of fuel.
prAe TIL Pablo Escobar murdered a Presidential candidate/The secretary of Justice/The inspector General/various congressman/kidnapped the future president/murdered the Chief editor of the biggest Newspaper/and bankrolled an operation that ended with the death of almost all the supreme court justices
kOvg4 TIL that a skull-shaped asteroid is passing by earth after Halloween. The last time it came close to earth was Halloween 2015, within 300,000 miles.