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TIL Jack Black's parents were both Rocket Scientists and worked on the Hubble Space Telescope

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9nBm TIL during the early penicillin era, the drug was so scarce and so highly valued that it became common to collect the urine from patients being treated, so that the penicillin in the urine could be isolated and reused
0wE61 TIL that the Texas School Book Depository building, from where Lee Harvey Oswald shot and killed President of the United States John F. Kennedy, was slated for demolition prior to the assassination, but was then preserved to investigate the murder, and is now a museum and National Historic Landmark
jWJn TIL that Garfield was never meant to be funny.
KOZaE TIL that Brenda Lee was only 13 years old when she recorded Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree.
Oky4 TIL that the rat in James Cameron’s “The Abyss” really was breathing a liquid; there is no theoretical reason that something similar couldn’t be used by humans. (more links in comments)