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TIL About the Frozen Dead Guy Days in Nederland, Colorado. It celebrates the cryopreservation of "Grandpa" Bredo Morstoel, by organising coffin races or lookalike contests. You can also visit the Tuff Shed where Grandpa is being held frozen.

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P1jag TIL Pluto was discovered on February 18, 1930, by Clyde Tombaugh. The name was suggested by an 11-year-old English schoolgirl, Venetia Burney. Tombaugh liked the name because it began with "PL," the initials of Percival Lowell, the astronomer who first predicted its existence.
yZ6e TIL in 1976, then 16-year-old “Weird” Al Yankovic started his career by handing a homemade tape of original and parody songs performed on the accordion in his bedroom into a “cheesy little tape recorder” to Dr Demento, a radio DJ who was speaking at his school.
l799B Til: that Haile Gebreselassie gets punch in the head and won the race
JoXl TIL Joe Greenstein, American strongman, survived a bullet to the forehead (bullet flattened on his skull) then years later went on to beat 18 nazi sympathizers with a baseball bat and escaped unharmed
YpDwx TIL that NFL stadiums pour fabric softener over all the turf on the field so static electricity doesn't make the turf stick to the jerseys, pants, cleats, etc.