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TIL that planetary scientist Eugene Shoemaker is the only human in history to have their ashes buried on the moon

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6EZk7 TIL that in 1931, Gödel, a 25 year old mathematician, showed that there is a gaping hole at the bottom of mathematics. Simply put, there are things that are true that mathematics can never prove to be true.
pdY4 TIL 7 American tobacco CEOs testified under oath that nicotine is not addictive in 1994.
Z8GKD TIL that Ketchup was sold as a medicine against digestive problems in 1830
O47e TIL That the average NFL game has just 11 minutes of action, the rest is replays ads and people walking around.
9wpG7 TIL Thomas Edison controlled most of the film industry in New Jersey which annoyed smaller independent producers and filmmakers. They retaliated by moving their independent films to Hollywood, and eventually became Universal, Paramount and 20th-century Fox.