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TIL that the inventor of the frisbee, Ed Hendrick, was cremated and had his ashes turned into frisbees.

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NX7YP TIL Jonathan Larson, creator of the Broadway Musical 'Rent', died suddenly and penniless the night before its first Off-Broadway performance. Rent made it to Broadway for a 12-year run and won Best Musical and many other awards, all of which Larson missed.
dDYxr TIL about Prussian Heinrich Berger, an officer of the imperial German army and honored with the title of "Father of the Hawaiin music". He collaborated with King Kalakaua to create Hawaiʻi Ponoʻī, the national anthem of Hawaiʻi.
mYbO TIL there’s a website called freerice.com that asks you vocabulary questions, and donates 10 grains of rice through the World Food Programme for every question you answer correctly.
neOLo TIL That dogs and cats circle around before bedding down as a throwback to their wild ancestors. Their survival instincts provoked them to position themselves in the direction of the wind to pick up predator scents and choose the best angle for keeping an eye on the environment.
awa89 TIL in 1949, the Admiral television company sponsored the Admiral Broadway Revue TV show on NBC and DuMont. Six months later, they canceled the show not because it was unsuccessful, but because it was so popular they couldn't keep up with the manufacturing demand for TV sets.