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TIL that part of the reason Neil Armstrong was given the honor of first man on the Moon was that he was more humble than the egotistical Buzz Aldrin

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lOVN TIL that as of 2013 two hundred thousand (200,000) were interned in North Korea’s “Auschwitz-Like” concentration camps.
mjdv TIL Tim Schafer, during his Lucasfilm phone interview, said he loved their game “Ball Blaster”, which was the name of the pirated version of the game “Ball Blazer”. To make up for it, he sent his cover letter in the form of a semi-graphic adventure and got the job.
yQjBJ TIL that the city of Enterprise, Alabama has a monument dedicated to the boll weevil as thanks for the weevils destroying their cotton crops, which forced them to diversify their agricultural sector and led to greater prosperity.
e0bb4 TIL: Entrepreneur Laura Scudder (1881-1959), a pioneer of marking food with freshness dates & of using chips bags was refused insurance by male agents. After decades she gave up a $9 million offer for her company when the buyer wouldn't guarantee workers' jobs. (A later $6M offer did protect them.)
l7K9a TIL prior to 1972, the NFL did not calculate ties in a team's winning percentage. This is why the Spartans whose Win-Loss-Tie record was 6-1-4 (.857 win %) and the Bears at 6-1-6 (.857) went to the first NFL playoff game in 1932 and the Packers at 10-3-1 (.769) were not declared the NFL champions.