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TIL that Yamaha's musical instruments wing works with Lexus and other car manufacturers on fine tuning the sound their engines produce

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M677 TIL that John Harington, inventor of the toilet, is an ancestor of Kit Harington (Jon Snow in Game Of Thrones).
nr9Y TIL in 1962 the US detonated a nuclear bomb in space
mx5RR TIL actor Jim Bullock, who played Prince Valium on "Spaceballs" and also appeared on "Seinfeld," contracted HIV as early as 1985 and is still alive today
6ExPX Today I learned that a cast member on the TV show Survivor found a package of cocaine that had washed up on his camps shore
WkLOX TIL in 1971 David Scott smuggled a 'Fallen Astronaut' sculpture onto the Apollo 15 lunar mission and placed it on the Moon's surface to "commemorate the astronauts and cosmonauts who have died in the advancement of space exploration."