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TIL that Flea from the Red Hot Chili Peppers was in The Outsiders

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J1VB TIL that Jeff Foxworthy attended Ga. Tech, and worked in mainframe computer maintenance at IBM for 5 years.
rNDAe TIL about the true reason the vast Hudson Bay Lowlands remain largely uninhabited and even undiscovered - it is all Muskeg, a wetland landscape of bogs and wetlands comprising organic matter, which can get so soft during spring thaw that it is known to sink building structures and even train cars
OL4a TIL the spacecraft Solar Probe Plus which is scheduled to be launched in 2018 will achieve a speed of 432,000 mph, making it the fastest man made object ever built.
v1aD8 TIL that upon hearing that kids were more likely to eat spinach and broccoli that had been wrapped up like McDonalds, Anthony Bourdain hatched a plan to wrap disgusting foods up as McDonalds for his daughter, to make sure she grew to hate the fast food chain.
Lkjr TIL John Norman, the little-known “white guy on the podium", made a major contribution to the 1968 Olympic black rights statement. He went home to Australia a pariah – his career ended by the AOC. He died in 2006 without any recognition, buried quietly by his lifelong friends: Cook and Carlos.