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TIL that Pizza Hut had plans to project their logo onto the Moon

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6EMjZ TIL Black Sabbath regularly had speaker boxes full of cocaine delivered to Record Plant in Los Angeles, during the recording of the album Vol 4.
W7LrN TIL that the geologist Michel Siffre spent 2 months underground without time cues to study how his body clock adapted, repeated the experiment for even longer on himself and more subjects, and discovered that their bodies tended to switch to a 48-hour clock. In one case, one even slept 34 hours.
b9yDQ TIL Earthquakes on Mars are called Marsquakes.
4Xmjw TIL the nuclear bomb tests in the 1940s can help identify forged paintings by using radiocarbon dating. Authenticators can count the number of carbon 14 isotopes and decide whether the number is realistic for the time. Carbon 14 isotopes are known to have dramatically increased after these tests.
16WoD TIL Dr. John Harvey Kellogg (of Kellogg’s Corn Flakes) was so enamored of yogurt’s effect on gut health that he promoted a pint of yogurt for his patients: half to be eaten and the other half to be administered via enema.