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TIL Neil Armstrong had to go through US customs when he came back from the moon.

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Bg79y TIL The Blood-stained Pink Chanel suit of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy wore in JFK’s assassination remains uncleaned and is currently stored inside a climate-controlled vault in the National Archives and will remain "out of public view" until at least 2103.
E1e7p TIL the USSR used a nuclear bomb to put out a gas well fire.
QXP9 TIL NASA had to relabel the penis sleeve for urinating in space suits from “small, medium, and large” to “large, gigantic, and humungous” because astronauts would only choose the large and they kept slipping off.
kOayE TIL that Gotham City derives it's name from the village Gotham in Nottinghamshire, England, which according to local folklore is inhabited by fools.
OGMD7 TIL United States is called 美國 in Chinese, literally meaning "beautiful country".