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TIL about Time Balls

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91kM TIL that a man in Michigan has 29 college degrees, and is currently studying to get his 30th.
AKQx TIL that the 90’s comedy sitcom “Dinosaurs” ended with them creating a nuclear winter and then freezing to death.
OGY96 TIL that in 1971's Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory; a photograph of Martin Bormann, head of the Nazi Chancellery was used as the image of Albert Minoletta (the golden ticket counterfeitter).
BYkb TIL that Space temperature can never get lower than a minimum of just 2.7 Kelvin or -270.45 Celsius, the temperature of the cosmic microwave background radiation, which permeates the entire Universe.
MerMK TIL [Stephen] Hawking's words, set to music by Greek composer Vangelis, are to be beamed into space from a European space agency satellite dish in Spain with the aim of reaching the nearest black hole, 1A 0620-00