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TIL It’s possible to listen to records that no longer exist by extracting audio from pictures of them

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R54J6 TIL Barbara Morgan, backup to Christa McAuliffe who died on the ill-fated Challenger mission, was also in a NASA chase plane that was following the Columbia when it broke up seventeen years later. She flew into space on Endeavour in 2007, fulfilling the Teacher in Space mission.
M70XB TIL the United Nations estimates that $1.7 Trillion is wagered globally in illegal sports betting markets each year
JrVl TIL in China, if you hit someone with your car you pay for their medical care. Killing someone, however, is a one time fine. For that reason, people have gone back to kill someone they accidentally hit.
e0015 TIL Akira Toriyama, the creator of Dragonball Z, got so angry at the movie adaptation Dragonball Evolution that he revived the series over 15 years after it originally ended.
1pr8 TIL in 1994, Howard Stern talked a caller out of jumping off the George Washington Bridge as a nation listened