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TIL NASA has a radio station, and all they play is alternative rock.

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8e61X TIL two mirrors facing each other don’t produce infinite reflections
G4M1 TIL that Pat Sajak and Alex Trebek swapped places on Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune as an April Fool’s joke in 1997
Y7PBG TIL Darius Rucker (Hootie and the Blowfish frontman/country artist) released a solo R&B album in 2002.
kDwd TIL Albert Einstein believed in “Spinoza’s God”, who “reveals himself in the harmony of all that exists, not in a God who concerns himself with the fate and the doings of mankind.”
p58N TIL That SR-71 pilots sometimes came from bomber aircraft because nobody else had experience in long supersonic flights. A crew taken from a B-58 Hustler ended up setting a world record for longest supersonic flight after flying the SR-71 for over 10 hours… over 15,000 miles. Nonstop.