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TIL the five flags planted on the moon cost only $5.50 in the 1960s and have all turned white from bleaching by sunlight

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pnbp TIL that in 1937, a natural gas leak at the local school in New London, Texas caused a massive explosion that killed upward of 295 students and teachers, the deadliest school disaster in US history. Adolf Hitler even sent his condolences by telegram.
j6GeM TIL that hair styling powder exists, after I thought my hairdresser tried to sell me illegal drugs when he asked after my haircut if I wanted powder
XE9lj TIL 9 people were trampled to death in a mosh pit at a Pearl Jam festival show. today marks the 20th anniversary of the tragic event.
7rG8x TIL during the German invasion of the USSR in WW2, Nazi forces captured Stalin's son, Yakov Dzhugashvili. When the Nazis proposed exchanging him for their captured field marshal Frierich Paulus, Stalin retorted "I will not trade a marshal for a lieutenant." Dzhugashvili was later executed in 1943.
j6d4n TIL of the remote cliffside village of Atulie'er, where—as recently as 2016—kids as young as 6 would spend 90 minutes each way climbing unstable vine ladders 800m to and from the bottom of the mountain to get to school.