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TIL Neil Armstrong, the first man to step foot on the moon, carried with him a piece of the cloth and wood from the original 1903 Wright Flyer.

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bEZa TIL Marty Feldman, who played Igor in “Young Frankenstein,” clandestinely moved his hump from side to side during filming for several days until someone noticed it. It was then added to the script and made into a recurring gag.
XEajP TIL that the longest prison sentence ever, of 1,000,000 years, was received by Chamoy Thipyaso, for her swindling 16,000 Thais
m4jP TIL of Disney’s short lived introduction of self destructing DVDs.The discs worked perfectly for the two-day viewing window but when taken out of the package, exposure to oxygen turned the coating black and made the disc impenetrable by a DVD laser.
jNeE TIL that George Washington thought 40,000 people was too many for 1 congress member to represent and supported an alteration to reduce that number to 30,000. Today, each member of the House of Representatives represents approximately 690,000 people.
Y7O0A TIL in 2016, 19-year-old college student Austin Harrouff walked into a garage and killed two strangers, eating one of the victims' faces. He thought he was “half man, half dog” and being chased by a demon. He was found not guilty by reason of insanity