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TIL The song "Africa" by Toto is forever playing somewhere in the Namibian desert

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j6NkM TIL that the Host of the famous tv show America’s Most Wanted, John Walsh, became an advocate for missing children after his 6 year old son was abducted and brutally murdered in 1981
v1JK7 TIL of Ernie Davis, the first black player to win the Heisman Trophy and also the first black player to be drafted with the #1 draft pick, but never got to play a single day of professional football. He died of leukemia at 23.
98AB TIL that a man who lived across the road from the notorious suicide spot, the Gap, saved anywhere from 160 to 500 people over a 45 year period, earning the nickname ‘The Angel of the Gap’.
VX88 TIL a cotton ball soaked in super glue will spontaneously combust.
RZ48 TIL school buses are yellow because yellow is seen faster than any other color, and seen 1.24 times faster than red.