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TIL Bob Seger’s only #1 single is “Shakedown” on the Beverly Hills Cop II soundtrack

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M7QnB TIL most modern chewing gum is made with Butyl (polyisobutylene), an oil derived synthetic rubber which is also used in tires and innertubes, and is then mixed with food grade plasticizers (also oil derived), and a few other materials.
NXaVN TIL in 1977, a Soviet nuclear reactor aboard the Kosmos 954 satellite malfunctioned and fell from orbit, scattering radioactive debris across northern Canada. The cleanup cost millions of dollars, most of which the USSR refused to pay.
69dV7 TIL Esteemed astronomer William Herschel presented his views that there were inhabitants on the Sun to Britain’s Royal Society in 1795. At the time, many scientists thought that all the planets were inhabited and many considered the Sun to be a planet
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