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TIL Chuck Berry’s classic song “Johnny B. Goode” is included on the Golden Record of both Voyager space probes.

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0w7Ep TIL the 1979 Daytona 500 ended in a fight on national TV
Z8OVQ TIL that German cars have an option to turn parking lights on only on one side (towards the road) to make parking safer on narrow European streets in the dark whilst consuming half the power.
80LK TIL there are exploding lakes. Lake Nyos in Cambodia exploded in 1986 after being saturated with carbon dioxide from the volcanic vent below it. The resulting CO2 cloud suffocated 1700 people.
1aZjr TIL that in 1904 a Swedish sailor, Carl Emil Pettersson, was shipwrecked on an island in Papua New Guinea inhabited by cannibals. The kings daughter fell in love with him. They married and he eventually became king of the island.
bPp9 TIL A single valley in Chad provides over 50% of the nutrient rich dust that is in the Amazon rain forest.