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TIL in 1961, astronomer Frank Drake created the Drake Equation, a formula to estimate the number of communicative alien civilizations in our galaxy, sparking the modern search for extraterrestrial life.

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8WXG TIL for $45, the U.S. Bureau of Engraving & Printing will sell you a 5-lb bag full of $10,000 worth of shredded U.S. currency.
vvxj TIL the mother of a 9-week-old child that went missing in 1980 insisted that a dingo took her baby. Six years after being convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison, the child’s jacket was found in a dingo lair. In 2012, it was officially ruled that a dingo had taken and killed the child.
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Z80rD TIL Tim Duncan was almost an olympic swimmer but took up basketball when Hurricane Hugo destroyed his training pool and he was too afraid of sharks to train in the ocean
Eg0Px TIL that the 1971 Doors song "Riders on the Storm" partially references an American hitchhiking killer, Billy "Cockeyed" Cook in its lyrics. In 1950-51, Cook murdered six people, including a family of five, on a 22-day rampage between Missouri and California.