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TIL That after Dean Martin's "Everybody Loves Somebody" knocked the Beatles "A Hard Day's Night" for the #1 spot, he sent Elvis a telegram that read "If you can't handle the Beatles, I'll do it for you, pally."

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XERb8 TIL Psychology researchers found that listening to heavy metal music is a healthy way of processing negative emotions. It does not make people more violent. Some research shows that metalheads are less likely to cheat on their partners than jazz listeners.
OoDO4 TIL: Astronauts left their poop on the moon. They threw out the garbage thinking everything would be sanitized by the solar radiation. Scientists don't know if the microbes in the feces are still alive, but future moon missions will investigate that.
b477 TIL AT&T almost caused nuclear war. In 1961, the US lost contact with its early warning systems. Assuming the USSR had attacked, bombers were scrambled but recalled when contact was made with an EWS base. The phone blackout was caused by a faulty AT&T switch they had promised to replace.
XE7Z6 TIL that there's a lab on the International Space Station dedicated to freezing atoms to nearly Absolute Zero in order to study Bose-Einstein condensates, a fifth form of matter
VMjKZ Today I Learned that James W. Ford was the first African American to run on a presdential ticket in the 20th century