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TIL that only 12 people have walked on the moon, and all within a 3 year span. No one has been to the moon since 1972, over 40 years ago.

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KOkAR TIL some lab employees at CERN, the largest particle physics laboratory in the world, carried out a “prank” where they staged a human sacrifice in front of their statue of shiva
4eOo TIL Playboy considered creating a reality show where homely women from small-town America would receive Playboy-style makeovers to become Playmate material. It was dropped when the director said “Playboy is about beauty. We’re not going to associate Playboy with women that don’t meet our standards.”
N78B6 TIL people who didn't wear masks during the 1918 flu pandemic were called 'mask slackers', and those enforcing the rules were armed, which led to gun fights and hundreds of arrests.
VMam8 TIL that in 2009, Trevor Noah’s mother Patricia was shot by his stepfather Ngisaveni after she married another man. When confronting him over the phone about the incident, Trevor moved to the United States after Ngisaveni threatened to kill him.
GYEXG TIL Congress has met outside Washington DC twice since 1800: July 16, 1987, at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, to commemorate the 200th anniversary of ratification of the Constitution, & at Federal Hall in New York on September 11, 2002, to mark the first anniversary of the September 11 attacks.