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[TIL] the song Macarena by Los Del Rio is about a woman named Macarena who cheats on her boyfriend with TWO of his friends while he's away in the Army.

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9wKAm TIL that the London Hammer, discovered in 1936 in Texas, is a controversial out-of-place artifact that appears to be a 19th-century tool encased in rock purportedly dating to the Cretaceous period. This challenges established geological timelines
E1GNX TIL that when astronauts are outside the ISS, space-borne compounds adhere to their suits causing a distinctive scent when they return to the station. The smell is so unusual that NASA reached out to a top fragrance maker to re-create the odor for its training simulations.
nW7bo TIL Earth's Magnetic N Pole is moving 60 km Annually, Faster than it has in a Long Time. It used to move about 15 km annually, but it has now moved out of Canada and is headed towards Russia. A pole reversal (N turns into S, and vice versa) is possible, but unlikely at this time.
jb1p TIL that three Stanford “rocket scientist” mechanical engineering PhD students invented a disease-detecting breath analyzer and were approved to test their prototype on human patients – all in under one year, an almost unfathomable feat in the medical device realm
JpGl TIL the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima released an amount of energy equivalent to the conversion of 0.7 grams of matter into energy.