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TIL that Neil Armstrong, first man on the moon, learned to fly before he learned to drive.

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bwr9 TIL there was an unwritten law in the circus world that giants should never allow themselves to be measured. Every circus could then maintain that they had the world’s tallest man and no one could prove otherwise.
7repr TIL ships that were constructed before 1945 are the primary source of steel that is not contaminated with radioactive nuclides. The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki along with nuclear tests and disasters have polluted the atmospheric air that is being used for the steel production.
16G87 TIL Anissa Weier, one of the Slenderman Stabbers was released from a mental hospital after serving 7yrs for attempted first degree intentional homicide. Her accomplice, Morgan Geyser withdrew her request for early release. Weier was sentenced to up to 25yrs in a psychiatric hospital.
4kdy6 TIL that 61% of US troops killed in Vietnam were under the age of 21. The overall average age was 23.
YwBB TIL A church choir had a practice session starting at 7:25pm one evening in 1950, and by 7:27pm the building exploded. No one was killed as they were all running late.