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TIL NASA has a long standing tradition to wake up astronauts with a specially selected track of music each day, usually picked by friends or family members, called “Wake Up Calls”

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jN7Qp TIL that Marion Stokes built an archive of network, local, and cable news, in her home, one tape at a time, recording every major (and trivial) news event until the day she died in 2012 at the age of 83 of lung disease.
Lk4rP TIL that fire fighting was an unofficial competition at the 1900 Summer Olympics, in both professional and volunteer categories.
gBOX TIL That Mr Burns telephone greeting in The Simpsons, ‘Ah-Hoy!’ was actually how Alexander Graham Bell thought people should answer the telephone when he invented it.
G4y5 TIL that in 1978, Charlie Chaplin’s body was stolen and held for ransom. His widow refused to pay ransom demands of £400,000 because “Charlie would have thought it ridiculous.” The body was found 11 weeks later.
6E0j7 TIL that the bubonic plague still circulates in New Mexico among prairie dogs, and that dogs can catch infected fleas and spread it to humans