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TIL a Corned Beef Sandwich was smuggled onto Apollo 16, resulting a review of the incident by Congress.

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A7XB TIL a 2005 FX docudrama (“Oil Storm”) portended a major hurricane hitting New Orleans causing citizens to take refugee in the Superdome and a resulting national increase in gas price… A scant three months before Katrina.
m0YE TIL that the American soccer team Seattle Sounders averages 43,000 fans per game, more than the elite billion dollar club and and 2012 Champions League winner Chelsea FC in England
Y7v1v TIL the first Coca-Cola cans were made of steel. In 1965, Coca-Cola tested sodas in flat-top aluminum cans, which had superior thermal properties, keeping contents cooler longer and addressing consumer complaints about warming soda in steel cans.
47GR TIL that Commodus, son of Marcus Aurelius, once gathered all the little and disabled people he could find and forced them to fight to the death with little more than meat cleavers.
80NZ TIL in 2013 a chinese father hired gamers to ‘kill’ his son ingame repeatedly to stop his addiction to gaming.