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TIL that the signal to start the 1974 Portuguese Coup was given through the broadcast of Portugal's Eurovision Entry Song

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ADrMl TIL the Mission Command Center, used by NASA for such missions as the Apollo 11 moon landing, was built by Philco-Ford, a subsidiary of the Ford Motor Company.
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kOaAW TIL Cows in America are being fed candy such as Skittles as a cheap alternative to corn, which came to the general public's attention early 2017 after a news story broke about a truck that spilled hundreds of thousands of Skittles onto a road in Wisconsin.
DQnjD TIL Maria Rasputin, daughter of Grigori Rasputin, lived in the U.S. and worked as a dancer and a lion tamer in a circus, dying in 1977 in L.A.
LQNVd TIL the largest example of fossilized human feces ever found was 8 inches (20 cm) long and 2 inches (5 cm) wide