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TIL the moon is not grey, rather it has a colorful surface ranging in shades from red to blue

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GAep5 TIL that in 1958, the U.S. government accidentally dropped a nuclear bomb on a family's backyard in Mars Bluff, South Carolina. The bomb’s nuclear core was not installed, so it didn’t cause a nuclear explosion, but the conventional explosives detonated, leaving a massive crater and damaging the home
QNnjp TIL that from 1998-99, when Total Request Live's #1 song changed, 55 of those times it was from a Backstreet Boys song to an N Sync song or vice versa
698mW TIL That Greenland's National Park (Northeast Greenland National Park) is bigger than 166 of the world's 195 countries and has fewer than 500 visitors annually
P146w TIL 'Lord' and 'Lady' derive from Old English 'hlaf-weard' and 'hlaf-dige'; bread-warden and bread-kneader
VPA4 TIL that Coelacanths were thought to be extinct since the cretaceous period, yet they were discovered alive in 1938