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TIL that in 2002 NASA interns stole Moon Rocks worth $30 million, then drove to a motel and had sex on them, before trying to sell them to an amateur mineralogist from belgium

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Yp68G TIL The aluminum can industry saves 90 million kg a year by making the top 6mm smaller.
Y7gYr TIL - in 1973, Mick Jagger (Rolling Stones) wrote the song “Starfucker”, after Carly Simon released her hit song “You’re So Vain”. Jagger had an affair with Simon, who was married to James Taylor at the time, and the affair ended a few months before her song was released.
4kpQR TIL George Lucas sold Lucasfilm (Star Wars) for $4 billion to Disney in 2012, but has since earned over $10 billion from the sale.
lo7p7 TIL Written 4500 years ago The Diary of Merer is the oldest papyri ever discovered. It details the daily life of workers who built the Great Pyramid of Giza
6ZX7 TIL for the first 35 years of his life, Jack Nicholson didn’t know his sister was actually his mother. He didn’t find out until 9 years after her death from cancer, thanks to a TIMES Journalist.