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TIL that Bob Dole’s ‘96 election site is still live.

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xVYAg Today I learned that Tom Petty did not usually allow his music to be played on television, but he let The Simpsons use his song "The Waiting" in the episode "The Cartridge Family" because he was a fan of the show.
kOrp5 TIL Stirling Colgate, heir to the Colgate toothpaste family fortune, was a physicist who proposed the use of satellites for detection of nuclear weapons testing. He went on to conduct research that helped Chandrasekhar win a Nobel Prize after realizing that the satellites were detecting supernovae.
yQd0J TIL The Chief Baker of the Titanic survived paddling for three hours in the frigid Atlantic waters after the sinking of the ship. This was due to a combination of two factors; he'd drunk a decent amount of alcohol, and he was a very good swimmer. He was the last man to leave the ship.
kjK5 TIL a 46 year old ex-NFL player suffered a head injury that caused him to lose ALL previous memories, even knowledge of concepts such as children, love, spouses, birthdays, etc.
8a5L TIL three times as many left-handed people have schizophrenia, bipolar disease or autism.