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TIL NASA has it’s own internet radio station called ‘Third Rock Radio’ which plays Indie/Alternative rock music with NASA news items and mission updates embedded throughout the broadcast

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5VXnD TIL about the "Tanganyika-Laughter Epidemic". A student in 1962 in Tanzania started laughing in a school in Kashasha. The laughter quickly spread to hundreds of people,causing schools to close for months. Researchers believe it was caused by stress, social tensions. No official explanation was given
D1lme TIL the oldest mathematical artifact in the world is the Lebombo bone, found in the mountains of Eswatini (formerly Swaziland), Africa. The bone was likely used as a measurement device and to keep track of lunar cycles, suggesting that the first mathematicians might have been African women.
loZdr TIL that British comedian Spike Milligan wrote his own obituary, which was published soon after his death. He listed his hobbies as "Writing Goon Shows and dying".
W7Jjo TIL A man staged his own kidnapping from his home in front of his terrified wife by two masked men with guns just to go out drinking with his friends without his wife knowing. He returned home two days later and claimed that his captors released him.
EAMX TIL that Eminem is commended in the 2015 edition of the Guinness Book of World Records for having the most words in a hit single, ‘Rap God’, totaling 1,560 words in 6 minutes, 4 seconds.