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TIL that Carl Sagan lived in an Egyptian Revival home called The Sphinx Head Tomb in Ithaca, NY

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wLyX6 TIL The novel/film "Looking For Mr. Goodbar" was based on a true story. It was based on the murder of school teacher Roseann Quinn in 1973. She was stabbed 18 times by a man she met that night at a bar and brought home. When he was finally caught he hung himself in jail.
R5VQw TIL Kwanzaa was created in California in 1966
e0wvk TIL when Tater Tots first hit store shelves in 1956, people did not buy them because they were very inexpensive and there was no perceived value. When the price was raised by stores, people began buying the product.
rWje TIL that 2000 residents in Ramsar, Iran, receive an average of 10x the safe background radiation dose without any increase in cancer rates: several times more radiation than found in Pripyat, the ghost town near the Chernobyl power plant.
EbB7 TIL that in the early days of baseball, players would often steal across the field from first base to third.