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TIL the number of cricket chirps in 14 seconds plus 40 equals the temperature in Farenheit.

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nRr TIL that in 1966, the US lost a hydrogen bomb in the Mediterranean Sea, and struggled to find it. Finally, a Spanish fisherman helped them find it, and asked for the $20 million finder’s reward that the US owed according to law.
0v1y TIL that Amazon owns IMDB and is used to sell their movies.
brE TIL that student loan debt is roughly $1 trillion in size, greater than either auto or credit-card debt and second only to mortgage debt in the US.
xV4MB TIL A piece of Martian meteorite is being returned to the red planet by NASA - this is the first time humans will bring a rock back to the surface of its original celestial body
mxblM TIL the "old woman" from Metallica's song "The Memory Remains", Marianne Faithfull, was only 50 at the time of recording and is still alive.