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TIL that MTV, the former home to music videos, now primarily airs Ridiculousness, during a stretch of 168 hours in late June 2020, 113 hours of programming were gobbled up by the show and during one weekend in August, episodes ran for more than 36 hours uninterrupted.

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p8RRG TIL in 1951, Natalie Carbone Mangini became the first female scientist at Westinghouse. They meant to hire a man but they misread her resume and gave her an interview when she showed up. As a radiochemist, she worked on the world's first full-scale atomic reactor and the first nuclear submarine.
E7Qo TIL that gingko trees are so hardy that six are known to have survived the atom bomb and are still growing in Hiroshima—they also smell like barf.
WkJOd TIL about 40% of all Vietnamese people have the surname Nguyễn. It is also the 7th most popular surname in Australia, and 2nd in Melbourne in particular.
WkQm8 TIL after the forced annexation of Hawaii, Prince Jonah, son of the last king of Hawaii, joined the GOP and ran for congress, succeeding. He served in the House of Representatives for 19 years, and is the only known royalty to have served in Congress.
vP8wx TIL Muhammad Ali once appeared in a DC comic book. He knocked out Superman to save him from aliens.