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TIL Ryan Gosling ditched the 2015 Oscars to go to Disneyland with Guillermo Del Toro

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dD5dE TIL About the 'Balloon Hoax'. Perpetrated by Edgar Allen Poe in The New York Sun it purported to tell the story of a three day lighter than air balloon trip across the Atlantic. The story was revealed as a hoax two days later.
gMwdL TIL that after the Apollo 11 moonwalk, NASA was concerned about the volatility and possible fire or explosion of lunar dust after the LM was filled with oxygen. Armstrong and Aldwin spread out a sample in the LM before repressurizing and watched to see if it caught fire or smoldered. It did not.
E1RQ0 TIL the word Kamikaze means divine wind, a term that was coined for a typhoon that sunk a mongol fleet trying to invade Japan in 1281.
LQ6av TIL ancient Andeans figured out how to freeze-dry potatoes as a hedge against crop failure
Z8xLB TIL of the "Stoned Ape" theory of human evolution which states that early hominids ate "magic mushrooms" growing in the dung of large African Animals and this helped to rapidly evolve the human brain into a state of higher consciousness.