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TIL the Galileo mission may have accidentally triggered a nuclear explosion on Jupiter

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4VO6 TIL René Laennec invented the stethoscope because he was unable to hear a patient’s heart due to their “great degree of fatness”.
JYLxm TIL The Supremes are the most successful American group on the US Billboard Hot 100 with 12 number-one peaks holding the record since 1970. The closest group after them is Hall & Oates with 6.
8aXb TIL that Howard Hughes endowed $156 million to a gas-station owner for finding him on the side of the road and giving him a ride to Las Vegas.
78lKM TIL Despite having the same name, largely using the same menu, and operating mostly in the Northeast, all locations of both Kennedy Fried Chicken and Crown Fried Chicken are independently owned and operated and not franchises.
woQVP TIL That a British experiment in 2007 made lab mice see red (trichromatic vision)