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TIL that Trey Parker’s father is a geologist named, Randy, his mother’s name is Sharon, and has an older sister named Shelly.

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DdOr TIL an Area 51 researcher claims that the “aliens” that allegedly crash-landed there were WWII POW’s who were being experimented on to study the risks of space exploration on the human body and that the images of aliens are, therefore, derived from that of humans whose bodies were destroyed.
Z8yJo TIL Shinjuku Station in Tokyo is the busiest transport hub in the world - used by an average of 3.6 million people per day
b9QwN TIL that the Richter scale, used to measure the magnitude of an earthquake, is logarithmic, meaning every whole-number increase in the scale indicates a tenfold increase in the intensity.
gMvV8 TIL that Waylon Jennings was supposed to be on the plane that killed Buddy Holly, but he gave his seat to J. P. Richardson who was sick at the time. Before they left Holly jokingly said that he hoped the bus broke down, to which Jennings replied, "I hope your ol' plane crashes."
GAMGE TIL the US deported, without evidence of wrongdoing, the father of the Chinese missile/space program