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TIL a Texas minister set himself on fire and died in the hopes of inspiring social justice. The act drew little attention.

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BALd TIL a six-second-long drum break from the late sixties has become the most used sample of music to date, as it helped form the basis for both hip hop and drum and bass music.
6D7X TIL that officially the last words spoken on the moon were “God willing, we shall return.”, but were actually “All right, let’s get this mother out of here and go home.”.
7e9M TIL there is a church in Rome that is lined with skeletons and has a plaque in 3 languages that reads “What you are now, we once were; what we are now, you shall be.”
7b9X TIL in 2001 Pizza Hut paid the Russian space agency to send a pizza to the International Space Station at the cost of $1 million
awomL TIL The Infinite Monkey Theorem states that a monkey hitting keys at random on a typewriter will produce, in an infinite amount of time, any finite text we can think of. This would include, as an example, the complete works of William Shakespeare.