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TIL that the NFL moved the 1993 Super Bowl from Arizona because they refuse to make Martin Luther King day an official state holiday

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N7xwM TIL about an actual "Sleeping Beauty" in that there's a 99 year old (100 this coming December) perfectly preserved body of a 1 year old, named Rosalia Lombardo. She died of Pneumonia in 1920 & filled with grief, her father enlisted Alfredo Salafia to embalm her body so she can be preserved forever.
4bXg TIL 48 countries including the US and Russia have signed a convention that bans the use of weather control in times of war.
ZpKnR TIL - LG stands for Lucky Goldstar
xVwk5 TIL that for The Mandalorian opening theme music composer Ludwig Goransson bought a set of (flute) Recorders because he wanted to step away from computers when he began the Mandalorian project
NrgM TIL that Melbourne might have been called Batmania