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TIL The median age for a Fox News viewer is 65 years old

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A1Rn TIL In the 1913 Tour de France, Eugène Christophe’s front fork on his bike broke. He carried it 10 km to the nearest blacksmith, where he used the forge to weld it back together. He was penalized 3 minutes because he had a local kid pump the bellows for him.
jNvvX TIL: Gregory the Great- 6th Century Pope (and Saint) wrote of Mary Magdalene as a prostitute, despite there being no record of this in Scripture. Contemporary scholars agree that Mary Magdalene was likely an upper class woman who supported Jesus Christ- but not necessarily a prostitute.
4nwo TIL : In 2003 a Boeing 727 was stolen from an Airport in Angola, Despite a worldwide search it still has not been found.
pRxp TIL - Scientists have trained a Petri dish full of neurons from a rat brain to successfully fly a F22 flight simulator.
j0kM TIL about Motörhead, a 1992 beat-em-up for the Amiga. You played as Lemmy as he rescued the other members of the band from rappers, rednecks and ravers. The game also included bottles of Jack Daniels as health and mini-games where you pick up groupies and trash hotel rooms.