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TIL that scientists have invented a new, lighter steel that’s as strong as titanium

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d0oK TIL of the Jack Hills, a range of hills in Mid West Western Australia. They are best known as the source of the oldest material of terrestrial origin found to date: zircons that formed around 4.4 billion years ago
aw6BN TIL that the song 'One Week' by Barenaked Ladies was #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for one week.
VBwR4 TIL Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu, who started the persecution of Catholics, died in 1616 from over-eating tempura, a dish invented by Catholics during Lent while they were visiting Japan in 1543, which was the same year the Shogun had been born.
RvX8 TIL one of Indiana’s most prolific serial killers was the founder of sav-a-lot grocery stores. 11 bodies were found behind his Westfield estate. He is suspected of killing a number of other men found along I-70. Most victims went missing from Indy’s gay community.
GYwp4 TIL when Paul McCartney was recording the album Ram, he brought in some of the cooperating musicians under the guise of conducting a session to record a commercial jingle.