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TIL There is an unsanctioned “art museum” that Astronauts on Apollo twelve snuck onto the moon.

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YpdMA TIL that the longest ice hockey game in history was game 5 of one of the quarter-finals of the 2016-17 Norwegian league playoffs. The game went into octuple overtime for a total of 157:14 of overtime, and 217:14 of hockey played. The game started at 18:00 and ended at 2:32 the next morning
88pL TIL Pi appears as the average ratio of the actual length and the direct distance between source and mouth of most rivers.
DWpD TIL Xerox has an “adopt a plant” program where employees water an office plant, saving the company $200,000 per year on watering services.
0wMoj TIL: CBS used to add bird songs to their golf broadcasts to get rid of awkward silences until they got caught by someone watching at home who knew the bird songs belonged to birds that didn’t live in the region in which the golf tournament was being played.
0dkER TIL: Alexander Hamilton’s first son Philip died from a duel three years earlier near the same spot Alexander was fatally shot, using the same set of pistols.