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TIL - Johnny Carson was an amateur astronomer and was the first person to contact Sagan’s wife with condolences when he died in 1996.

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5V1lB TIL King of the Hill characters Kahn Souphanousinphone and Cotton Hill were voiced by the same voice actor
BgxAK TIL: in 1896 two trains were intentionally crashed at high speed in the United States as a public spectacle.
jNnMa TIL Massachusetts man Richard Noll bought two scratch-offs in order to break a $100 bill to buy lunch and won $10 million from one of the tickets. Mitesh Patel, who sold him the winning ticket, will receive a $50,000 bonus.
69VGJ TIL every time a deck of cards is shuffled the probability that sequence of cards has ever existed before is infinitesimally small due to the immensity of 52!
xVE65 TIL President James Buchanan regularly used to buy slaves in Washington, D.C. and quietly freed them in Pennsylvania