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TIL that Carl Sagan’s team wanted to include Here Comes The Sun by the Beatles on the Voyager Golden Records that were intended to portray the diversity of human life and culture to potential extraterrestrial discoverers, but the record company EMI wanted $100,000, far in excess of the budget.

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W7v84 TIL about the "Society for Lying In" hospital in NYC, built in 1902, it's name based on archaic term for childbirth. It's estimated that 60% of the births in Manhattan took place there.
J1jKv TIL: Lemons are not a naturally occurring fruit. They were created in SE Asia by crossing a citron with a bitter orange around 4000 years ago. They were spread around the world after found to prevent scurvy. Life didn’t give us lemons.. We made them ourselves.
rNLG1 TIL that Bob Anderson was Viggo Mortensen's private fighting trainer - or in other words, Darth Vader taught Aragorn how to fight
kV64 TIL that there’s a waterfall in Antarctica that has a water source completely free of oxygen. Containing a high amount of Iron & Sodium. When the water is exposed to air as it flows out of the glacier it rusts coloring the water red making it look like the glacier is bleeding!
mOnE TIL free, open-source tool called Reaver exploits a security hole in wireless routers and can crack most routers’ current passwords with relative ease.