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TIL There has been an annual festival called 'Bob Dylan Festival' celebrated in the city of Shillong, Meghalaya, in India since 1972.

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R7oa6 TIL Marie Curie's belongings will be radioactive for another 1,500 years and all guests are expected to sign a liability waiver and wear protective gear to get access as the items are contaminated with radium 226. Her body is also radioactive and was placed in a coffin lined with lead.
N7D8P TIL some of James Doohan’s (Scotty the Engineer from the original Star Trek series) ashes are hidden in the floor of the International Space Station after being smuggled there in 1998.
Y1DA TIL: Japanese game-show contestants are actually trained comedians, because the average Japanese person is too reserved to demonstrate the fear and anguish of being conveyored into another man’s butt-cheeks.
4Xrn6 TIL that cricket was the only sport approved by Taliban during their rule of Afghanistan.
OoELX TIL that the 1998 science fiction film "Soldier" starring Kurt Russell was meant to share a universe with "Blade Runner" and has oblique references to it and stories by Philip K. Dick.