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TIL that the 1st moon landing, the Manson murders and the Woodstock festival all happened within the timespan of just one month (the Summer of 69) (cbsnews.com)

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a8G4b TIL that since before The Civil War no Democrat has been elected President to replace an outgoing Democrat President.
Xyjk TIL of The Stoned Ape Theory, which is a controversial theory from Terence McKenna which states that a lot of our advanced human evolution came as a result of the ingestion of psilocybin mushrooms, also known as magic mushrooms by our primate ancestors.
d8wN7 TIL that a British inventor created an earthquake bomb, which was used in WWII to great effect to destroy bomb-proof installations such as submarine pens. The same inventor later invented a bouncing bomb, which would skip across water to avoid torpedo nets and destroy dams
nLEG TIL that in 2001, the island country of Niue issued several pokemon coins and is still the only country in the world that uses images of pokemon on their currency.
rj5W TIL Paraguay is the only country in the Americas where more people speak a native language than a colonial one (90% Guarani vs 87% Spanish)