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TIL There was a con artist who was so good, he sold the Eiffel Tower. Twice.

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oBar7 TIL that there are support houses in Tijuana and Mexico for the U.S. veterans who have been deported. One such support house has tracked at least of 400 deported veterans
W7NeA TIL Apollo 13 astronaut Fred Haise would've have walked on the Moon as commander of Apollo 19 before budget cuts cancelled that flight
DQdNv TIL the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami Beach was a TV and Film location for dozens of projects including Goldfinger, Thunderball, Scarface, The Bodyguard, Tony Rome, and more
e0QbJ TIL the movie set built for "Popeye" (1980) has been maintained as a tourist attraction and open-air museum on the island of Malta. People even get married there.
avnA TIL that you will need a telescope 50 times the size of the Hubble to see objects left by humans on the moon. Even if we use the Hubble Space Telescope to look at the moon, a football stadium sized object would appear as only one pixel.