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TIL that one of the astronauts on board the space shuttle Challenger was due to record saxophone parts in space for a Jean-Michel Jarre record

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mvQY TIL that Abraham Lincoln has no confirmed living descendants. His last, a great-grandson, died in 1985.
Oo4xY TIL about rangeomorphs. Ancient organisms that lived before the Cambrian Explosion that are the only known organisms to reproduce in geometrical patterns called fractals.
jDAE TIL that Jim Fixx, the man credited with starting the fitness revolution and demonstrating the health benefits of jogging, died of a heart attack while jogging.
VME04 TIL when you are eating a pineapple, it is technically eating you as well. Pineapple is the only known source of Bromelain, a protein-digesting enzyme found in all parts of the fruit.
9Yy7 TIL a lone Tour De France rider rode clean and spoke out against doping, but was shunned by Lance Armstrong and the rest of the peloton.