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TIL that in 2001 NASA commissioned boy band Natural to write a song about space in an effort to reach a younger audience. The band was to undergo astronaut training in order to perform in space when astronaut Will McCool, who the band teamed up with, died onboard the Columbia space shuttle in 2003.

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X5gk TIL self-taught naturalist Ray Stanford shocked paleontologists by routinely finding hundreds of dinosaur prints in suburban Washington DC where only a handful had been discovered before. He has a unique ability to recognize patterns and abnormalities in rock. He also claims seeing UFOs in clouds.
ZpaJv TIL more than 300 million people globally don’t have a single friend, according to Gallup data
MLvA TIL: Two bystanders were shot in Detroit when two men got into an argument over who made better Kool-Aid
awOVy Til Subway's start up franchise cost is anywhere between $105,800 to $393,600. Compared to McDonald's start up costs of up to 2.2 million.
VPok TIL of ‘Dublin’s Pintmen’. Known to drink around 30 pints in a day, and according to a book on Irish pub law - 'Pintmen exude a sort of spiritual aura when in union with their pint. An ethereal look can be seen in their eyes as they are transported beyond spatial and temporal bounds.’