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TIL Robin Williams was instrumental in the early success of Audible as an investor and creator of the first weekly program

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0wBeA TIL in 1900 the flow of the Chicago River was permanently reversed in order to prevent sewage from flowing into Lake Michigan
OoajY TIL that NASA beamed the song “Why Can’t We Be Friends?” to Soviet cosmonauts and U.S. astronauts during the first joint U.S.–Soviet space flight in 1975 (The Apollo–Soyuz Test Project)
m4bY TIL a German U-boat sank due to a toilet malfunction.
jNYQj TIL there is an annual tradition at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station where after the last flight of the season leaves (after which they're stuck for a few months), the crew holds a movie night where they watch all three film adaptations of "The Thing"
4KQg TIL that in 1985, Utah Senator Jake Garn flew aboard the Space Shuttle. He became so sick and nauseous, that to this day, astronauts use the “Garn” as a unit of measurement of space sickness…