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TIL NASA accidentally recorded over the original moon landing tapes and lost a critical piece of human history forever

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6Evem TIL when it snowed for the first recorded time in Miami in 1977 a meteorologist initially thought it was a coke-drop that had gone wrong, until realizing that the flakes were snow.
6ybW TIL that James Earl Jones declined to have his name appear on the credits of both Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) and Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980), claiming that he felt his contribution wasn’t significant enough to warrant a credit.
wR07 TIL On this day in history Ozzy Osborne bought 3 rounds of drinks for everyone on a plane returning from spring break and sang “Crazy Train” over the PA system.
Zmlv TIL that five years after Slumdog Millionaire won the Oscar, Danny Boyle still goes to India once a year to check in on the child actors.
7rpGO TIL that the term Peanut Gallery came from Vaudeville days when the audience in cheapest and rowdiest seats in the theater often ate peanuts and sometimes threw them at the performers.