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TIL that the treadmill of the International Space Station is named after Stephen Colbert.

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BBDK TIL skin care products have virtually no effect on skin elasticity, since the protein elastin cannot penetrate the skin layer.
OojvR TIL Despite its association with the supernatural, a full moon rarely occurs on Halloween. The next time this will happen is Halloween night of 2020.
Eom0 TIL that in 1921 a group of whites burnt the wealthiest black community, in the United States, known as “black wall street”, to ground. Firebombs were dropped from airplanes and hundreds were killed. This massacre was not acknowledged in state history records until 1996.
R544w TIL of George Pickering, who in 2014 held a team of doctors hostage to save the life of his son, declared brain dead after a stroke. He forced them at gunpoint to keep his son on life support during a 3 hour standoff with police, until he felt his son squeeze his hand.
0PZL TIL the iconic bassline from The White Stripes ‘Seven Nation Army’ isn’t a bass guitar. It’s a normal guitar shifted down an octave by an effects pedal