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TIL that due to the inverse square law, the terrestrial TV and consumer radio signals which leave our planet become indistinguishable from background noise after just a few light years

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Oo6r4 TIL about Emma Kelly, the lady of 6000 songs. When asked to go through a playbook and it was found she could sing and play piano for 6000 songs from start to finish. She achieved some notoriety after appearing in the book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.
RvW1 TIL Patrick Stewart, while he was going bald in his teens, believed no woman would ever be interested in him again, and gave up on the idea of love and relationships.
1aJZ4 TIL that the small pocket on blue jeans was originally designed to hold pocket watches. The pocket dates back to the old west (1879). Cowboys kept their pocket watches on chains and they put the watch in the small pocket, to help protect it.
xVpow TIL in 1940 only about a quarter of Americans who were 25 or older had completed high school education.
4vWb TIL 50% of expert chess tournament games end in a draw