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TIL Aretha Franklin's voice was designated a natural resource by the State of Michigan in 1985

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5YMjR TIL Apollo astronaut Edgar Mitchell took home a 16 mm camera from the Lunar Module that would have otherwise been destroyed. Mitchell tried to auction the camera to help medical treatments for his son who had cancer before he agreed to relinquish the camera by donating it to the Smithsonian
b9aVN TIL A raccoon in Germany broke into a zoo exhibit housing 7 other raccoon's. Since the raccoon is considered an invasive species the zoo could not legally release the vagrant raccoon and had to let him stay in the zoo.
Mb4B TIL Alexander Fleming warned that misuse of antibiotics could lead to resistant bacteria during his Nobel Prize acceptance speech for discovering Penicillin
rNp0o TIL that the kid who voiced Arthur in Disney’s 1963 film “The Sword in the Stone” went through puberty in the middle of production. The director then used his two sons to finish recording Arthur’s lines. In some scenes, vocal clips from all three actors are interspersed.
5YG7D TIL that the German national anthem's first verse (no longer sung on official occasions) mentions 3 rivers and a strait, all of which exist entirely outside the current borders of Germany.