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TIL that there’s a hamburger joint in Tokyo called Whoopi Goldburger.

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4XeK6 TIL During the 1960 campaign, Kennedy learned that a group of Kenyan students who had won scholarships to study at American universities didn't have enough funds to come. When Eisenhower refused to intervene, JFK arranged to have the Kennedy family foundation underwrite their travel
epM4b TIL that during World War II, a British zoo placed a female panda named Ming in an underground shelter to keep her safe from bombing raids. Ming became a local celebrity and was considered a symbol of resilience during the war.
ADvZl TIL that 95 year old Dick Van Dyke uses LightWave 3D and has been doing computer animation since owning a Commodore Amiga in 1991.
1N8d TIL the universe is bigger than it is old. The universe (93 billion light-years in diameter) is much larger than the distance light could traveled during 13.8 billion years since the big bang.
VMdN8 TIL that in 1964, Robert Peabody was exposed to 7 Sieverts/10K rads of radiation after confusing his chemicals, adding uranium solution instead of trichloroethane to his Uranium-235 mixture. He died 49 hours later.