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TIL that Blind Willie Johnson's song 'Dark was the night, cold was the ground' was selected by NASA for their Voyager probe to represent the human emotion of loneliness to whatever or whoever finds the spacecraft in outer space.

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Y7JmB TIL that everything from the ice hockey Stanley Cup, Port Stanley in the Falklands, Brisbane's Stanley county and Liverpool's Stanley Dock and Park are all named after one father and son.
M5P7 TIL Visitors entering the Catacombs of Paris are greeted with the chilling message Arrête, c’est ici l’empire de la mort (Halt! This is the empire of the dead!).
WRKL TIL of the “self attribution fallacy” which suggests that “If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a millionaire”
kgwm TIL in some parts of India, there is a “No Toilet, No Bride” campaign, which promotes the use of toilets by encouraging women not to marry men who do not own a toilet.
vP517 TIL that crustless bread was used as an eraser during the Japanese Meiji era (1868–1912). Since there was no restriction, it was often used to partially satiate hunger.