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TIL Fox News, trying to compete with The Daily Show and Saturday Night Live, launched a satirical comedy show called the ½ Hour News Hour. It received “historically poor reviews” and was cancelled in its first season.

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xVJ1B TIL SpaceX launched the remains of 152 people to space with a company called Celestis. That same company sent the ashes of Gene Roddenberry (Star Trek creator) to space as the first-ever space burial, back in 1992. Upcoming missions will send DNA and human ashes even farther, into Deep Space.
vPa8x TIL there are anonymous baby drop boxes where parents can surrender unwanted newborns without fear of prosecution.
D1Lop TIL Shavarsh Karapetyan dove into freezing water to rescue passengers from a sunken trolleybus, caught pneumonia ending his career as an Olympic swimmer and then saved people from a burning building
ADLMg TIL there are 480 million tiny needles in Earth's orbit. They were placed there in 1963 during the cold war as part of Project Westford to facilitate global communication
rRdr1 TIL when Elvis Presley's debut single was first played on the local radio station, he was invited for an on-air interview. The DJ asked Elvis which high school he attended: a roundabout way of informing the audience of his race without actually asking the question