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TIL That Pearl Jam Doesn’t even know the lyrics to Yellow Ledbetter

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mxgnY TIL the neutron is unstable. On its own, the neutron undergoes beta decay into an electron, proton, and antineutrino with a half life of 15 minutes. (In nuclei the neutron can be stable.)
LQyn9 TIL Legendary Wild West gambler and gun man Doc Holliday was convinced he would be killed in a shootout with his boots on. Instead he lay dying of tuberculosis in a hospital, asked the nurse for a shot of whisky which she denied, looked down at his bootless feet, said "This is funny" and died.
xZ80 TIL The blinking light atop the Capital Records Building spells out the word “Hollywood” in Morse code, and has done so since the building’s opening in 1956.
VBXwG TIL That the McDonald Observatory in Texas, it's primary mirror has 7 bullet holes in it. This has caused it to only reduce in effectiveness by approximately 1%.
nW9vP TIL: The first message ever sent on the Internet was “LO”