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TIL The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald was recorded in December of 1975, just a few weeks after the freighter sank.

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vvPK TIL that several people have successfully used the “Matrix defense” in court, claiming that they are part of a computer simulation, and a conspiracy against them caused them to commit their crimes.
b9VvE TIL that Cheap Trick has performed live more than 3,700 times.
L5O0 TiL in 2001 in India, red rain fell containing micro organisms which could not be concretely identified as coming from earth.
epxJg TIL that Leonardo da Vinci did not begin working on the Mona Lisa until he was in his 50s.
PYoEe TIL that the story of the Chernobyl power plant didn’t end with the tragedy of 1986. There was actually a second fire that broke out on Reactor 2 in 1991, and it wasn’t until 2000 that the last operating reactor was fully shut down.