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TIL when basketball first started, the backboard was not a designed piece of equipment. They were added years later to keep fans from interfering with the game.

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e00B4 TIL there are 96 bags of astronaut poop, pee and puke on the moon. They were left behind to make room for bringing moon rocks back to earth. Theres also 12 Hasselblad cameras, a gold plated telescope, used wet wipes, space food wrappers, golf balls, 70 other space craft, and 12 pairs of boots there.
Brkly TIL while trying to make a point about how difficult it is for new writers to be published, English author and Nobel laureate Doris Lessing submitted two novels, "The Diary of a Good Neighbour" and "If the Old Could", to her publisher in the UK under the penname Jane Somers - and both were rejected
6E057 TIL that in 2014 a Finnish man tried to hijack a plane in Hong Kong with a Toblerone, because he wanted to get to the Sochi Winter Olympics.
oRp87 TIL that Hugh Hefner, founder of Playboy magazine is buried right next to Marilyn Monroe in Westwood Memorial Park. He paid $75,000 back in 1992 to secure the spot. He told the LA Times, "Spending eternity next to Marilyn is a opportunity too sweet to pass up."
r6yM TIL that in 1902 Traian Vuia, a Romanian Engineer, designed his first flying machine, then presented his plan to the Académie des Sciences in Paris in 1903, but was rejected with the comment: “The problem of flight with a machine which weighs more than air can not be solved and it is only a dream.”