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TIL NASA set out to disprove the claims of the “Mayan Apocolypse”, and did.

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69QRQ TIL in 1975 King Charles III (then a Prince) was the British monarchy's first qualified scuba Diver and first to dive under the Arctic ice.
Kv8a TIL that Philip J Fry from Futurama is named after Matt Groening’s father “Homer Philip Groening”, not after Phil Hartman.
RVR6 TIL When Issac Hayes terminated his contract with South Park claiming the show was intolerant, after the Scientology episode, creator Matt Stone stated “He never had a problem when we offended other religions till it was his own.”
pZwb TIL during the Viking age many Scandanavians wore mini Thor hammers around their necks