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TIL that the No Child Left Behind Act was responsible for canceling the TV show Reading Rainbow.

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OoBmX NASA put 12 astronauts on the moon between 1969 and 1972. With the death Friday of Apollo 16’s John Young, only five of those astronauts are still alive, and they range in age from 82 to 87. No human being has been beyond low Earth orbit since the end of the Apollo program.
4XbJ TIL that ARTIE, the strongest man in the world, does the voice of KAHN on king of the hill, and he’s not even asian
0VZv TIL the programming language Python is named after the comedy series “Monty Python’s Flying Circus”
gMB18 A book town in Fjærland, along Norway’s longest fjord, has 3 miles of open bookshelves manned mostly by honesty boxes.
R7K68 TIL Olympic gold medals composed at least 92.5% of silver