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TIL: the Wow! signal, discovered by volunteers, remains the strongest evidence of extraterrestrial communication. The "Big Ear" observatory was since dismantled to make room for a golf course expansion.

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rN7W1 TIL when actor Christopher Lloyd arrived to audition for the role of Jim Ignatowski on the television show Taxi, unshaven and unshampooed, the receptionist thought he was a homeless person who had managed to wander past security and onto the Paramount lot.
Wk77L TIL when African elephant bulls enter “must” (a rutting phase of the reproductive cycle), they experience Green Penis Syndrome. During this time they secrete pungent liquids from their temporal glands, while the penis turns green and releases a constant dribble of strong-smelling urine.
YAbP TIL that Moby Dick was inspired by the sinking of the Nantucket whaler ‘Essex’ by an 85 foot sperm whale.
78nyO TIL that the last words of Augustus, the first Roman emperor, were, “Have I played the part well? Then applaud me as I exit.”
QNX6e TIL Kansas City barbecue history originated with Henry Perry. He came from Shelby County, Tennessee, near Memphis, and began serving barbecue in 1908.