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TIL coming back from the moon, Apollo astronauts had to go through customs and declare moon rock as cargo.

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RWV9 TIL: Cocksucker Blues is an unreleased documentary film about The Rolling Stones. Even though the band had commissioned the film, they decided that it was embarrassing and incriminating and did not want it shown. A court order forbids it from being shown unless the director is physically present.
XYXE TIL the American and UK versions of the comic strip Dennis the Menace were both released on the same week in March 1951. Both share the same title, a trouble loving boy in a striped shirt, and a sidekick dog. Neither of the creators of either comic strip knew that the other was being created.
vodR TIL that 50% of the fuel needed to get to Mars is required just to get out of low Earth orbit.
OQna TIL that during WW1 Marie Curie attempted to donate her Gold Nobel prize medals for the war effort but the French National Bank refused to accept them.
wLKM1 TIL traffic is so bad in Bangkok that Thai Traffic Police has a unit of officers trained in basic midwifery in order to assist deliveries which do not reach the hospital in time.