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TIL . There is no Beatles music on the Voyager (Interstellar Spacecraft) Golden Record because EMI said no.

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XEPQ6 TIL Contrary to popular lore, there was no epidemic of suicides in the wake of the Stock Market Crash of 1929. One contemporary reference to the myth was written by a British reporter who had been very badly burned in the market himself, the reporter’s name was Winston Churchill.
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b9dpp TIL The Phrase "Eye of Newt" is Shakespearen and Refers to Mustard Seeds
jN6ZX TIL that the record for passengers on a ship was set in WW2 by the Queen Mary: 16,082. The ocean liner was so fast it often sailed without escort and could outrun both submarines and torpedoes
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