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TIL All of the bases in DNA and RNA have now been found in meteorites

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GApo7 TIL Tina Turner shares the record (with Pat Benatar) for most Grammy awards given for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance and is the only female artist to win a Grammy in the pop, rock, and R&B fields.
v1KeR TIL that in 1905, Chelsea FC put two small boys behind their goalkeeper, William "Fatty" Foulke, in order to accentuate Foulke's size (1.93m, 152kg) and put off opposing attackers. The boys would sometimes run and return the ball when it went out of play. By accident, ballboys came into being.
epyok TIL about Marjorie Rice, a self-taught mathematician who, in the 1970s, discovered four new types of tessellating pentagons (figures able to pave a surface without leaving a void between them)
ADR07 TIL that all current Syrian hamsters are descended from two siblings that mated in a 1930s laboratory. The other lab hamsters were all eaten by their mother/sibling, killed with cyanide or escaped.
rRj60 TIL Switzerland has 7 simultaneous "presidents", each with equal power. Every year they rotate control of 7 federal depts & who acts as "head of state" (e.g. when dealing with other countries). They come from various parties — right now it's 2 conservatives, 2 liberals, 2 socialists, and a centrist