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TIL the song "Old Town Road" is based off a Nine Inch Nails instrumental from the free-to-use album Ghosts I-IV.

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78l9b TIL that James Cook discovered the island of Tubuai, Austral Islands of French Polynesia in March 1777 but failed to actually set foot on the island
vKN8 TIL The ruins of Pompeii are so well preserved that you can still read graffiti from the period.
X6KE TIL there is more gold in the Earth than silver, mercury, iodine, and uranium combined.
nePvb TIL During Operation Ivy Bells (wire tapping Soviet underwater communication lines) the USS Seawolf (SSN-575) was almost lost during one of the missions—she was stranded on the bottom after a storm and almost had to use her self-destruct charges to scuttle the ship with her crew.
b6Ym7 TIL that Robert Williams was the first known human to be killed by a robot, in 1979.