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TIL in Spongebob, episode 420 is Best Day Ever

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6EBKW TIL, Coolio attempted to crowd dive into a crowd of students, none of them caught him and instead he was beaten up with his shoes stolen
pYExA Today I learned that everything I'd heard or read about the Mid-Atlantic/Transatlantic accent (old accent from old films) was wrong. It had nothing to do with "broad appeal" to Brits and Americans, and it wasn't a standardized taught accent
v1b97 TIL there is a graveyard orbit of satellites many kilometers above the usual geosynchronous orbit
6EEEl TIL that Carl Haber created a machine that can read the surface of very old audio recordings and reproduce them without anything having to touch them; using the same type of technology that was used to see the Higgs boson particle.
xRVg TIL when Elon Musk was 28 in the year 2000 he contracted one of the most lethal forms of Malaria while on vacation in South Africa and nearly died, losing 45 pounds and taking six months to recover. He cites this near-death experience as the moment that gave him a renewed focus and energy.