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TIL there is a piece of moon rock in a space-themed stained glass window in the National Cathedral in Washington, DC.

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Y7m7W TIL in US music notation, the name Do doesn't refer to a specific note (C) but to the first note of the scale you're using. So any note can be called Do
4l06 TIL that Ernest Hemingway once fired a sub-machine gun at sharks that attacked a tuna he was trying to land; the blood from the bullets caused the sharks to attack even harder
wLxOW TIL-that the first flag to be raised in Berlin was a Polish one! raised by the polish signal corps whom were part of the red army advance in Berlin!
OGVdR TIL from 1900-1920, tug of war used to be included in the track and field athletics program of Olympic sport.
nAm7 TIL When asked why he’d punched the man who’d hit him with a raw egg, UK politician John Prescott said that he was following Tony Blair’s orders to, “Connect with the electorate.”