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TIL Al Roker and Lenny Kravitz are second cousins.

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8eMbP TIL that United Airlines once had a computer system glitch and accidentally revived flight numbers 175 and 93 before correcting the error
8aMGZ TIL Astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti wore a 'Star Trek' uniform in space
wLjrE TIL that Russian scientists discovered a Nazi base in the Arctic named "Schatzgraber" (Treasure Hunter). Officially a weather station the site was abandoned when staff manning the site was said to have eaten raw polar bear meat that was contaminated with roundworms.
YxYB TIL Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was written during a six-day cocaine high during which he generated sixty thousand words.
b1m0 TIL of a species of Sea Cow over 10 times the size of Manatees that Europeans hunted to extinction in just 27 years