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TIL until 1978 more Americans listened to AM than FM radio broadcasts.

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LkMPV TIL about a 3000-year old Chinese tradition called Ghost Marriages, or the marriage of two people who died single. In some cases, the parents of unmarried men buy female corpses so their sons could have a wife in afterlife.
VMPDp TIL about John Simpkins, an artist who was the sole resident of a ghost town in Andrews, Oregon. A roundtrip venture to the closest grocery store is about 300 miles.
x6geo TIL that in 1999, 11-year old Mitchell Schop wrote to his favorite band, Cake, and asked if they would play his Bar Mitzvah. After Schop sang his favorite song of theirs to the band over the phone, Cake agreed and made Schop's party the first stop on their 1999 world tour
kBxm TIL Nelson Mandela was a heavyweight boxer in his younger years. He continued to train while he was in prison.
9YQmm TIL that Neil Armstrong went to the North Pole with Sir Edmund Hillary (first to climb Mt Everest) and other prominent explorers. He said that he was curious to see it from the ground, since he'd only seen it from space.