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TIL that we put a man on the moon before luggage wheels were invented.

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LBr0 TIL there are 3 cages hanging from the steeple of St. Lambert’s Church, Münster. They have hung there for 479 years. These 3 cages held the corpses of the 3 Anabaptist leaders tortured to death after the fall of Münster in 1536.
NRb1 TIL in the UK and Ireland, one can sign up for an inexpensive, mutually beneficial arrangement for owners who need minders for their dogs, and dogless folk, who love dogs but prefer to love them in a part-time sort of way.
9wARr TIL of Marcus McDilda - a P-51 Mustang pilot shot down over Japan two days after the first atomic bombing. Tortured by the Japanese to learn U.S. atomic bomb capabilities, he told his captors the U.S. had 100 atomic bombs that would be dropped on Tokyo and Kyoto within "the next few days."
7r7DO TIL Dr Szent-Györgyi, a Hungarian biochemist, lived a full life: shot himself to get out of WW1, got the Nobel prize for isolating vitamin C, had an arrest warrant personally issued by Hitler (for secretly negotiating with the Allies), escaped and hid from the Gestapo for 2 years, and had 4 wives.
pVnZ TIL the copyright for the song “Happy Birthday to You” expires in the EU on December 31st, 2016