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Z8vWY TIL that the ozone layer is recovering and restoring wind circulation (and it is not due to lockdown)
MeeV TIL 87 people drowned during the manhunt for John Wilkes Booth.
grv4D TIL the recording of Beauty and the Beast by Angela Lansbury was done in one take
Z8mQo TIL that because beef tallow and lard are unkosher, northern European "Jews turned to poultry fat as their cooking fat of choice; the overfeeding of geese to produce more fat per bird produced modern Europe's first foie gras as a side effect."
N7mM1 TIL the Voyager I and II space probes, which are currently racing through interstellar space, each include a golden record with 115 analog-encoded photographs, greetings in 55 languages, a 12-minute montage of sounds on Earth and 90 minutes of music (including Chuck Berry's 'Johnny B. Good')