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TIL After J. F. Kennedy was assissinated, his brain was stored in a locker at the national archives. After 3 years the brain went missing, and has never been seen since

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AxXg TIL Seattle fans cheered and celebrated so loudly during Marshawn Lynch’s 67 yard run in which he broke 9 tackles and scored the winning run that it registered earthquake activity on many nearby instruments.
jNbda TIL Danny Elfman of Oingo Boingo fame, who also composed the themes for many Hollywood hits like Back To School, Beetlejuice, Batman, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Men in Black, & Edward Scissorhands, was rejected from his elementary school orchestra "for having no propensity for music."
OQmg TIL the song “Stairway to Heaven” has more radio air time than the amount of time that is has been a song. (It was released in 1971)
AN0Dw Today I learned that the number 420 is the sum of 4 consecutive prime numbers 101 + 103 + 107 + 109 AND the subsequent number 421 is the sum of the five previous consecutive prime numbers 73 + 79 + 83 + 89 + 97.
VdWZ TIL America is under a perpetual State of Emergency; 30 of them, to be exact. With the oldest dating back to the late 70s.