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TIL The Voyager's "Golden Record" (an explanation of humanity for aliens) deliberately omits any mentions of religion, war or poverty.

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E1Rro TIL about numeronyms, words where a number is used to form an abbreviation. One of its uses is to replace the letters between the first and last letter in a word with the number of letters omitted. Thus, “internationalization” becomes “i18n”!
GYdeQ TIL that the best-selling Christmas song of all time, White Christmas, was written by a Jew whose own Christmas tradition was visiting the grave of his son who died on Christmas day in 1928 at the age of three weeks old. That son was Irving Berlin, Jr.
xVEoD TIL - An American woman lost all her teeth due to fluoride poisoning from tea. She'd been having a pitcher of ice tea made with 100-150 bags every day for 17 years.
OWgY TIL Captain Planet had an episode dealing with an HIV positive child voiced by Neil Patrick Harris, and Elizabeth Taylor voiced his mother
x65vo TIL in 1958 a nighttime training exercise resulted in a mid-air collision between an F-86 Sabre and a B-47 Startojet. To save the aircraft, the B-47 crew ditched their nuclear payload to save weight. The undetonated weapon is believed to have sunk near Tybee Island and remains unrecovered today.