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TIL there is a GeoCache on the International Space Station.

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7rkAp TIL The “XXX” signifies how many times the moonshine batch had been run through the still. Three X’s indicated that it had been run through three times and that the shine was pure alcohol.
75GZ TIL a man bought a $400 shipping container and found a $2,000,000 Canadian warship engine inside
lwwr TIL in 2014, Taylor Swift accidentally released 8 seconds of white noise on iTunes for $1.29. It became #1 in Canada almost immediately before being removed.
jPQE TIL that the death of author C.S. Lewis was largely overlooked due to another event that day- the assassination of JFK.
Lkaed TIL Martin Luther King Jr., in his last speech "I've Been to the Mountaintop," anticipated his early demise but was contented to be in the same position as the Biblical Moses, who could look on the promised land but would die before ever reaching it. King was assassinated the next day.