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TIL in 1972, astronaut Neil Armstrong visited the Scottish town of Langholm, where he was read a 400-year-old law declaring any “Armstrong” that enters the town must be hanged

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9jX6 TIL: there are more marijuana Dispensaries in Colorado Than McDonald’s & Starbucks, Combined.
P1KjZ TIL that “Seven Nation Army” was popularized as a sporting anthem by Club Brugge, a Belgian team, after fans heard it in a bar ahead of the club’s clash with Milan.
7rl0P TIL you weigh 1% less at the equator than you do at the polls due to centrifugal force of the earth spinning
7rYP7 TIL it’s forbidden to fly over Disneyland and you will be intercepted by fighter jets, just like near the White House Airspace.
epjWk TIL The Smoot-Hawley Act raised tariffs to the second highest in U.S. History in 1930, prompting retaliatory tariffs by other countries. causing exports and imports to decline by 2/3. Economists and economic historians have agreed that the Act worsened the Great Depression.