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TIL Neil Armstrong had to fill out a US customs declaration when he returned from the moon

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R78xj TIL in 1980 there was such an uproar that the film, The Elephant Man was not nominated for it effects by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences that the Academy Award for Best Makeup category was created the following year as response.
mjeE TIL that as of 2008, TV show Top Gear had a waiting list of over 300,000 names, or 21 years worth of episodes
OomO6 TIL it’s a myth that humans swallow an average of 8 spiders per year while they’re asleep. It was a made up by a columnist named Lisa Holst who wanted to show how quickly misinformation can spread.
QJmA9 TIL that the worst hard-rock mining disaster in American history occurred on June 8, 1917 when fire broke out in the Speculator Mine in Butte, Montana. 168 miners were killed due to the unsafe conditions, spurring one of the first successful unionizations of workers in the US.
e0Bxg TIL Target owns the license for Targét, the pseudo-French pronunciation of Target