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TIL all of the dogs who played Sandy in the Broadway productions of ‘Annie’ have been shelter dogs

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RaB9 TIL there is a medicine being developed that will not only cure the common cold, but pretty much any viral infection you could get, including possibly HIV. (Why can’t we fast-track this research?)
R8k4 TIL that if you collapse an underwater bubble with a soundwave, light is produced, and no body knows why, this phenomenon is called Sonoluminescence
6kam TIL King Abdullah II of Jordon once cameo’d as an unnamed ensign on Star Trek Voyager
BgXXe TIL about Charles Daniels, a little-known photographer who shot tens of thousands of pictures of famous rock stars during the 1960s and 70s, and has been sitting on "roughly 3,200 rolls of undeveloped film".
PYAQw TIL about The Man in the Moone, a 1638 novel that is considered by some to be one of the first works of science fiction. In it, a Spaniard ends up on the moon after fleeing Spain and harnessing some wild swans who fly him up to it. He then meets the “Lunars”-a people who inhabit the moon.