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TIL that if the genealogy of the early Germanic chroniclers is true, Queen Elizabeth II is descended from the god Odin

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LQrXQ TIL Kellogg's cofounder John Kellogg ran a sanitarium in Battle Creek MI where his cereals were part of the patient's diet. Future competitor CW Post was a patient in 1891, settled in the same town and started selling his own knock-offs of Kellogg's cereals and even opened his own sanitarium in 1892
Y7JVP TIL Space Center Houston offers Astronaut Days where visitors can meet an astronaut, train like an astronaut, have breakfast with an astronaut. There is also the “All-American Meal,” modeled after the meal served on also S-135, the final shuttle mission
6l78 TIL the community of LexPark in Lexington, Kentucky has instated an annual “Food for Fines” program - a month long food drive that allows people to at least partially pay their parking tickets in canned food, which is then donated directly to area food banks that help feed the needy
QJggX TIL: The record for the highest note ever sang was by Adam Lopez, who beat the prior record held by Mariah Carey, by more than an octave, in 2008.
4XZdJ TIL about the potlatch, a ceremony of some First Nations on the Canadian Northwest Coast held to celebrate events (ex. marriages, births). It served to confer status and redistribute wealth, which was seen as anti-Christian and wasteful of personal property, leading to a federal ban from 1884-1951.