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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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9wYvD TIL Jackie Gleason, famous for starring in The Honeymooners, was an accomplished musician. Gleason composed his shows' themes and his album, Music for Lovers Only, holds the record for the longest stay on the Billboard Top Ten Charts at 153 weeks.
wLPRo TIL that the reason large cuts of meat like port and brisket "stall" (stay at the same temperature, sometimes for hours) while being smoked is because they are "sweating" and water evaporation is cooling them as fast as heat is being added.
oBrRE TIL about Jaron Lanier, who at 13 convinced a university to allow him to enroll (where he took graduate-level courses) and at 16 built a canoe he sailed from Florida to Venezuela. He is considered a founding father of the field of virtual reality.
8g0Z TIL that by typing in the cheat code ‘O CANADA’ in the games Age of Mythology/AoE3, you could spawn a near-invincible 1,400lb Canadian Lazer Bear that flies with a Canadian flag cape and shoots laser beams from its eyes.
ADnwB TIL that macaroni and cheese originated in the 14th Century. A Middle English recipe describes it as "Take and make a thynne foyle of dowh. and kerve it on pieces, and cast hem on boiling water & seeþ it well. take cheese and grate it and butter cast bynethen and above as losyns. and serue forth."