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TIL the finale of MAS*H had 106 million viewers as compared to the finale of The Sopranos, which had 11.9 million

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dxRj TIL The first known photo of a person only happened because a man and his shoe shiner were the only people on a busy street to show up in the 10 minute exposure.
dXaZ TIL the USSR put a rover on the moon in 1970, and was missing from 1971-2010
x6p5o TIL Ghost moons — if they really exist — are swirling clouds of dust that share Earth’s orbit, staying ahead of or behind Earth as it goes around the Sun. Officially called “Kordylewski clouds,” ghost moons were first reported in the 1960s and were only tentatively confirmed in 2018.
b9G99 TIL that the Republic of Vanuatu (on a small Pacific island) has an underwater post office, and a post box on the rim of an active volcano
DXMV TIL That Chris Kyle, the protagonist of American Sniper, claimed that he shot 30 looters in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.