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TIL that the show ‘Firefly’ has been permanently added to the International Space Station as a form of entertainment for the station’s crews.

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GYNQj TIL That Genghis Khan wiped out an entire empire after they wrongly executed one of his trade caravans. The governor of a small town executed the Mongol traders under suspicion they were spies, and took their goods. Genghis responded by invading with an army of 200,000.
69gQl TIL a woodpecker wraps his tongue around his skull
XWE6 TIL Willie Nelson sold his first song for only $50 and the cost of a restaurant bill that he couldn’t afford. “Family Bible” went on to reach #7 on Billboard’s Hot Country Singles chart, but Nelson had no regrets about the sale, saying, “I felt if I could write one hit song, I could write another.”
OZn7 TIL a filmmaker, in order to expose “the general absurdity of what we all believe,” became a fake spiritual guru and ended up with a real group of followers who called him “the living embodiment of the divine.”
mZOx TIL Zach Galifianakis smoked weed on national television