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TIL that a saxophone was among the casualties of the Challenger disaster.

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yJ8V TIL Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart live in the same building and ride to work together.
P1AlV TIL in 2009, for the first time in history, two satellites (Russian and American) collided in space at 26,000 MPH. There was so much debris that people on Earth could see it falling from the sky. One day, residents of Kentucky heard a sonic boom, which NWS confirmed was space debris.
YpaB TIL there is a movie theatre in London that has volunteer “ninjas” that will “hush” obnoxious movie-goers.
lrKa TIL before blood glucose tests were available, doctors would taste the urine of their patients to diagnose Diabetes. A sweet taste meant the patient was diabetic.
YDx7 TIL that Jason Rohrer created a board game that could not be played for, at most, 2700 years because he hid it in 1 of 1,017,000 different locations in the Nevada Desert.