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8V1a TIL the average internet speed in the US is half the speed of South Korea. The US is not even in the Top 10 ranking by country.
6EdJw TIL that the backup crew for Apollo 12 (who later crewed Apollo 15) played a joke on the main crew by inserting Playboy photos into their wrist mounted checklists worn on the surface of the moon. Nude photos went to the moon 14 years before the first US woman in space.
X0edD TIL that Alison Arngrim's (Nellie Oleson in Little House on the Prairie) mother is Norma Mcmillan, the original voice of Casper The Friendly Ghost.
6ZKQ TIL Hans Christian Anderson ruined his friendship with Charles Dickens by inviting himself to his house and staying five weeks. He complained about the weather and service (no one would shave him), cut paper into weird shapes, and threw a fit on the lawn when his book got a bad review.
pgA TIL that until a referendum in 1967, Aboriginal Australians were not considered human beings - they were instead classified under the Flora & Fauna Act.