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TIL: Carl Sagan originally wanted to include the Beatles' Here Comes the Sun on the record on the spacecraft Voyager but the record company EMI declined

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OoAy7 TIL that Saint Thomas à Becket, Petrarch, Erasmus of Rotterdam, Albrecht Dürer, Nicolaus Copernicus, Pope Gregory XIII (reformer of the calendar), Enzo Ferrari, Michaelangelo Antonioni, and Umberto Eco all studied at the same university
0wYR5 TIL to reduce honking in India, researchers placed flashing red "Sad Face" buttons in cars that beeped every time a driver honked. In these tests, honking was reduced by 61%
kOGmm TIL before Cliven Bundy went to prison for his armed standoff against the government, he was partially responsible for keeping alive a strain of ancient crookneck watermelon who's seeds were found hidden in a cave in Arizona in the 1920s.
wL0jM TIL it wasn't until 1967 that the Australian government gave Australian Aboriginal people citizenship
GAobN TIL Throughout much of the late 20th century before internet porn, erotic thrillers were a prominent film genre spawning a cottage industry for at the time new home video markets. Part of the reason for popularity was Blockbuster did not stock unrated films, but they did have erotic thrillers.