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TIL "Edelweiss" is not the Austrian national anthem or even a folk song. It was written in 1959 for The Sound of Music.

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16VXP TIL about panspermia, the possibility of life on Earth emerging from it, and the possibility of using it a way of seeding planets with our genetic materials for life to grow on other planets.
N7PZ1 TIL That the Cuban Missile Crisis began when a CIA operative noticed soccer fields on a Cuban Military Base. “Cubans play baseball, Russians play soccer”
VMaAD TIL that while Elizabeth Fraser was recording “Teardrop” with Massive Attack, she found out that her boyfriend Jeff Buckley drowned. She now considers this song to be “kind of about him.”
gQ08 TIL that WWII fighter pilot James Howard won the medal of honor for single handedly taking on 30+ German fighter planes all by himself to protect a group of American bomber planes.
BX9y TIL junk mail companies are charged more money if you send their mail back.