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TIL: Bob Dylan gave an incoherent speech at an civil rights award dinner in Dec. 1963 in which he identified with Lee Harvey Oswald

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ANAXg TIL A man who saw John Wilkes Booth shoot Lincoln was on a TV Game Show
VMa4B TIL that January 19 1977 was the last day it snowed in Miami, Florida, it lasted a little more than an hour, and it hasn't snowed there since.
nWKOr TIL: mRNA was first tested in the 1990s, but a 2005 breakthrough made it stable for medical use.Early attempts failed as mRNA degraded too quickly. In 2005, scientists developed lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) to protect it, enabling new medical applications
Pb5V TIL that there are only 10 modern countries that have never been (in their entirety) a colony of a European empire: Liberia, Iran, Afghanistan, Mongolia, China, North/South Korea, Japan, Thailand, and Saudi Arabia.
R77N7 TIL that an English inventor named Maurice Ward (1933-2011) invented a thermal shielding material called Starlite which was able to withstand extreme heat (10000 degrees C), but never revealed its composition in fear of reverse engineering and losing control of rights to the material.