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TIL that NASA has a radio station called Third Rock Radio which plays only alternative rock.

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neaLP TIL A dagger discovered in King Tutankhamen’s tomb, in 1925, was made of meteoric metal. It wasn’t until recently that scientists were able to confirm, using portable X-ray fluorescence spectrometry, that it was composed of iron, nickel, and cobalt, “strongly suggests an extraterrestrial origin.”
4XdG6 TIL of Ruth Coker Burks aka the "Cemetery Angel" who at the height of the AIDS crisis put up her own money to take care of and buy medicine for AIDS patients and buried over 40 people in her family's cemetery plot, most of whom were gay men whose families would not claim their ashes.
0wDJv TIL About Dorothy Molter, aka "The Root Beer Lady," made root beer and sold it to thousands of passing canoeists in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW), near Ely, Minnesota.
MemJb TIL that a combination of “fernet and cola is so popular in Argentina that the country consumes more than 75 percent of all fernet produced globally
GAPY4 TIL that flea markets commonly forbid the sale of designer products due to a 2012 lawsuit from Louis Vuitton.