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TIL that Buckethead has released 42 albums so far in 2015 with an average of one album every 3.7 days.

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6EdJw TIL that the backup crew for Apollo 12 (who later crewed Apollo 15) played a joke on the main crew by inserting Playboy photos into their wrist mounted checklists worn on the surface of the moon. Nude photos went to the moon 14 years before the first US woman in space.
grWb TIL Finnish WWII sniper Simo Häyhä, who killed 505 Soviet soldiers in less than 100 days, didn’t even use a telescopic sight.
neK5b TIL Dorothy Parker gave her estate to Martin Luther King when she died. After he was killed, her estate was bequeathed to the NAACP. After many years of contestation, during which her ashes were kept in a filing cabinet, she now resides at NAACP headquarters as a Defender of Human and Civil Rights.
8gp4 TIL 1 Pt of Water, mixed with 6 tsp sugar, and ½ tsp salt is the best oral rehydration solution - per the WHO. Better than water alone, better than sports drinks, and cheap is hell.
kOO6m TIL the use of the word “scoop” in the context of news stories started with fisherman scooping water sealed boxes (full of news) out of the ocean and delivering them to land before wired transatlantic communications negated the need to do so.