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TIL The Space Shuttle Challenger was built as a vibration-test vehicle and then upgraded to become an operational Shuttle.

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x6PxB TIL that 569 million Slim Jim meat sticks are produced annually. The Slim Jim was invented in 1929 in Philadelphia and gained popularity in 1993, when Slim Jim began using Macho Man" Randy Savage in commercials, with the slogan, "snap into a Slim Jim".
QNykk TIL actor, poet and pro American football player Bernie Casey starred as widower Mike Harris in Harris and Company, the first weekly American TV drama series centered on a black family
BVax TIL that even though many people cite the PISA test scores as a source that Americans are behind in education, the test scores show that Americans beat every other OECD country when controlling for poverty in schools.
E1A0X TIL that Mussolini's great-grandson is a soccer player who plays on the right wing at Lazio
kODBB TIL: for April fools Day 1957 the BBC programme panorama made a hoax video exploring the bountiful 'Spaghetti Harvest' that year