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TIL For the Apollo 11 moon landing conspiracy theory to be true, over 400,000 people would need to be part of the secret.

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yQb1X TIL that Clara Peller, the actress behind the "Where's the beef?" slogan, had her contract with Wendy's terminated after she appeared in a tomato sauce commercial in which she said "I found it". Wendy's executive Denny Lynch stated, "Clara can find the beef only in one place, and that is Wendy's".
loNga TIL that "Tattoo" is a military bugle call played daily in the U.S. Army, not long before "Taps", which is played last; the word has a completely different etymology than does "tattoo" meaning a design inked into the skin.
4MYJ TIL The one thing that won’t kill you in Australia is rabies. The country is listed as “rabies free”.
PYlwE TIL A group of engineering students from Purdue University reported that its licking machine, modeled after a human tongue, took an average of 364 licks to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop.
11ad TIL “Macho Man” Randy Savage released a rap album in 2003, which included a diss track aimed at Hulk Hogan