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TIL the US government commissioned teams of artists and scientists to devise ways to warn humans 10,000 in the future of buried radioactive waste. One suggestion was to breed cats whose fur changed color when exposed to radiation, then immortalize the cats in song and legend.

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9wDLQ TIL October 1985, a Domino’s driver near Pittsburgh rushed to deliver a pizza 23 minutes after the order. He crashed into Frank and Mary Jean's car. After the accident, Domino’s manager allegedly passed the pizza to another driver with the message, "There's still time," prioritizing pizza over life.
R7ZR8 TIL that Arthur Miller was Marilyn Monroe’s last husband before she died. They divorced in 1961, she died in 1962.
N7W11 TIL the opening crawl to Star Wars begins with a storybook-esque narration ("A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away....") because George Lucas first imagined his films as stories being told by an ancient race of immortals. The immortals were written out for early films, but this vestige remained.
j65AE TIL that Pope Benedict IX was the only pope to be elected more than once. He allegedly participated in wild orgies involving sodomy and bestiality and even sold the Papacy.
xVV6D TIL the wreck of the Titanic is so deep in the ocean that there’s very little oxygen so it doesnt really rust. Instead it is being slowly consumed by anaerobic bacteria (a kind that doesn’t need oxygen to live). Within a few hundred years, a pile of iron ore will be all that remains of the titanic.