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TIL Harrison Ford was once a roadie for The Doors.

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wLr8Y TIL There are 400-million-year-old fossils of sea creatures and shells in the yellow band of Mount Everest (which is over 25,000 above sea level), which means this area was once underwater.
XjRX TIL that Jack, a baboon operated the railway signals for a South African railway operator under supervision of his paraplegic owner. He was paid with half-bottle of beer each week and never made a mistake in nine years of employment.
R746a TIL about Graham's number. This is a finite number so large that you couldn't write it out even if the numbers you used were subatomic in size and you used the whole observable universe as a canvas. But we know it ends in a seven.
MWDA TIL English accounts for about 52% of the Internet
lolR5 TIL An astronaut working on the International Space Station needed a tool he didn’t have, so NASA designed a wrench with computer software and emailed the file to him. He then used a 3D printer to create the first object ever designed on earth and made in space.