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TIL that Robin Williams and Robert DeNiro both stopped by(separately) John Belushi’s Hotel Room to do coke hours before he died.

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1NpP TIL Microbeads, the little abrasive beads in found in soap products, are so dangerous to the environment they’ve been banned in the US
Oxae TIL Big Bird was supposed to be launched into space to encourage kid’s interest in space/NASA. Instead they went with a teacher named Christa McAuliffe, who unfortunately died when the Challenger Space Shuttle exploded during take off.
M7DQ7 TIL about Pleistocene Park in Siberia where scientists are trying to recreate the ecosystem of the last glacial period (a long time ago)
ZpmQa TIL when an ancient Parisian cemetery was decommissioned in 1786, fat from the decomposing bodies was collected and turned into candles and soap
BgBbL TIL that the remains of the Vietnam War’s representative at America’s Tomb of the Unknown were finally identified 14 years after he was first entombed.