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TIL the Apollo 11 crew had to fill out a US customs form after returning from the moon

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84Pb TIL the DNA information in a single sperm contains 37.5 MB worth of data. Which means that an average ejaculation almost instantly transfers roughly 1,500 terabytes of data.
loeR5 TIL that in 1958, Chairman Mao ordered the killing of all sparrows since they threatened crops. It backfired, since the near-extinction of the sparrows lead to more bugs eating crops. This resulted in the deaths of forty-five million people.
WkaN TIL that the original idea for Resident Evil 4 was supposed to be a “cool” and “stylish” change in the series. It was canceled and eventually became what we now know as Devil May Cry.
KAR6 TIL that, initially, the Roswell UFO incident was almost immediately dismissed and forgotten until The National Enquirer ran a story on it in 1980.
DdXD TIL Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho was the first American film to show a toilet flushing.