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TIL on Take Your Child to Work Day in 2016, a kid visiting the studio accidentally took NPR off the air for a full minute along the west coast.

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ANbEn TIL that at Woodstock festival in 1969, Jimi Hendrix performed on the very last day to an audience of fewer than 50,000 people, as of the monumental crowd of 500,000 attendees present when the festival started three days before, vast majority has already left
Y7JlB TIL country star Merle Haggard got his start in music after seeing Johnny Cash play while he was an inmate at San Quentin Prison at age 21
aK8N TIL of Cliff Young. In 1983 he was a 61 year old potato farmer with no race experience. He decided to run a 544 mile Ultra-marathon because he said he ran chasing sheep all day anyway. He developed his own style having no experience or training, running while other slept and won by over 10 hours.
8aOxP TIL: More corporations than corporeal human beings reside in the State of Delaware with more than 65% of Fortune 500 companies calling the state their home.
Z80QB TIL that former Porn actress Asia Carrera is a member of Mensa, with an IQ of 156. She has a prodigy daughter who went to college at 11