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TIL: Music played in elevators and grocery stores has a specific official name.. "Muzak"

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yQP4w TIL: that Voyager 1 is travelling so fast that it would take just over 5 minutes to travel from London to New York
8BZ TIL that IKEA ran the first commercial in the US featuring a homosexual couple. It was shown once and then pulled following bomb threats to the stores.
4jyR TIL In Alaska, school children are learning to butcher moose. Students across all years are being equipped with life skills to survive in the wilderness.
ZpV4Q TIL a woodchuck doesn't chuck wood, it chucks dirt. A woodchuck chucks 700 pounds of dirt. What the dirt-to-wood ratio is, I don't know.
dDMaQ TIL of Macadam roads. These roads were convex, raised a few inches, and made of layered crushed rock; they were state-of-the-art for the 19th century. The rise of automobiles led to the dust issues that were solved by binding the roads with tar, leading to the invention of tarmac.