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TIL there was actually a priest who turned to wrestling to support an orphanage and it wasn't just made up for the movie Nacho Libre

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M7418 TIL in 2006 a man bought a record, on a New York street for $0.75, that turned out to be an extremely rare 1966 Velvet Underground acetate; one of only two copies known to exist. He sold it at auction for $25,200.
o5AE TIL Signals that baffled astronomers for 17 years were traced to the observatory microwave
N7koN TIL there’s even a crater on the moon named after a Confederate officer.
lNZV TIL that many German monks would sustain themselves on nothing but beer and water for the entire 40 days of Lent.
ADoGd TIL at 107 years old, the original "man in the monster suit" who played Godzilla is still alive.