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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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kOJVm TIL Africville was a black community in Halifax dating from 1840s but razed in the mid-1960s and its 400 residents were relocated as part of a redevelopment plan. Moving Africvillers into the city was seen by the government as a way to integrate them and meet their needs
b9r87 TIL that sign language has its own grammatical system
V5Bp TIL the Sun is the most perfect sphere ever observed in nature.
j6wOa TIL the Chernobyl power plant continued operating and producing power for 14 years after the infamous disaster, only fully shutting down in the year 2000.
1QQD TIL Louis Armstrong played the trumpet so much that it caused callus tissue on his lips. He would remove it himself with a razor blade.