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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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6EKx7 TIL about the “Great Shoe Spill of 1990,” where over 40,000 Nike shoes fell overboard out of a shipping container. Due to the shoes’ unique serial numbers, the spill has aided oceanographers in their studies of ocean currents. The shoes are still being discovered daily in distant locations!
lolXN TIL that there are currently more identified arachnid species than there are of all vertebrae combined
4XQk6 TIL: The Black Plague that wreaked havoc throughout Europe and killed roughly 25 million people, is 100% curable with cheap modern antibiotics and is still around but considered no big deal by the medical community.
pY9wO TIL that much of our understanding of early language development is derived from the case of an American girl (pseudonym Genie), a so-called feral child who was kept in nearly complete silence by her abusive father, developing no language before her release at age 13.
l811 TIL that despite approaching 90, Sir Christopher Lee (AKA Dracula, Saruman and Count Dooku) released a critically acclaimed metal album, resulting in a “Spirit of Metal” award in 2010