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TIL the hole in the ozone layer is expected to be completely healed by 2050 thanks to the Montreal Protocol signed in 1987, limiting the use of CFC’s

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d8b0d TIL Using advanced scanning techniques, Japanese and French scientists have discovered a 30 m long cavity in the Great Pyramid, above the Grand Gallery. The 'big void's purpose may remain forever a mystery, unless authorities approve drilling a small hole and lowering a robot inside to investigate.
neaZG TIL that retired astronaut, Heidemarie Martha Stefanyshyn-Piper, accidentally lost a bag of tools during a spacewalk in 2008. The tools, valued at $100,000, were lost when she accidentally pushed aside the bag they were in and it floated away.
xpJg TIL that a white man has not run in the 100 meter finals of the Olympics since 1980.
l8PA TIL Metallica’s Lars Ulrich announced that Metallica’s music is available for free streaming on Spotify. Which was founded by the same man who founded Napster. Sean Parker
7rnkO TIL that because of a deal to buy the rights to Peppa the Pig, toymaker Hasbro now owns Death Row Records.