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Today I learned Zambia, I country in Southern Africa tried to go to Mars in an oil drum

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B0xr TIL that after leaving office, Harry S. Truman began working within the Truman Presidential Library and Museum, often answering the phones to give directions and information as “the man himself.”
ANPQl TIL Singer Hank Williams died less than two months after releasing his final single titled "I'll never get out of this world alive"
5DaP TIL Jim Rice, of the Boston Red Sox, rushed into the stands in 1982 to help a young boy who had been struck in the head by a line drive. Rice carried the boy onto the field, through the Red Sox dugout and into the clubhouse, where the young boy could be treated by the team’s medical staff.
ne1Oo TIL Jonathan Swift, author of Gulliver's Travels had severe depression and mourned his birthday by wearing black clothes.
4glg TIL Space Ghost Coast to Coast was the show that launched the late night television block we know today as Adult Swim on Cartoon Network.