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TIL that in 2000, People Magazine voted Neil DeGrasse Tyson “Sexiest Astrophysicist Alive.”

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dD6BB TIL that Abraham Lincoln founded the US Secret Service hours before being assassinated
b997a TIL that a family lived in the Siberian wilderness for over 40 years without human contact.
R76e9 TIL many voiceover actors working remotely still use ISDN lines to transmit the audio. The quality is almost perfect and ISDN allows for real time transmission of audio to the destination, rather than needing to record first then send a file
yVyDv TIL about Laura Dekker, a Dutch sailor who at the age of 16 became the youngest person to sail around the world.
rNeWM TIL that the winner of the 1927 Alaska Territorial Flag design competition was a seventh grade orphan named Benny Benson. He was awarded a watch with the flag emblem on it and 1,000 dollars for education that he put toward studying diesel mechanics.