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TIL that all the American flags placed on the moon are now white due to radiation from the sun.

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JY9NQ TIL there is clear evidence that shows empathy and care towards disabled family members within early human and neanderthal groups. Individuals who could not aid in hunting and gathering still were taken care of.
OGMR7 TIL Steven Spielberg filmed both Jurassic Park and Schindler's List in the same year, 1993. For help, Spielberg asked George Lucas to finish post production sound on Jurassic Park and the film won best sound at the Academy Awards.
Xrjk TIL that Henry Ford did not invent the assembly line. Even before the Industrial Revolution, the Venetian Arsenal used an assembly line to build large merchant ships in as little as 24 hours, nearly 600 years before Ford.
D1K5v TIL that natives used to cure leather with animal brains to make it stay soft even after it gets wet.
9YElM TIL: Beethoven was the composer of Fidelio. Fidelio was not only the secret word in Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut, but it was also the name used in Beethoven’s only opera—(a wife who dressed as the man Fidelio).