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TIL there was only 66 years between the first flight and landing on the moon

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neRkB TIL about the Guatemala syphilis experiments, US-run non-consensual experiments on vulnerable members of the Guatemalan population. The lead physician John Charles Cutler was also involved with the more well-known Tuskegee Syphilis Study.
6R8Y TIL that Oxford University predates the Aztec Empire
M74Ga TIL in 1934 actress Joan Lowell sued producers of a movie based on her autobiography for withholding profits. They counter sued claiming she was just a horrible actress - it was revealed later that her autobiography was a work of fiction.
9MeX TIL Dock Ellis threw a no-hitter while high on LSD. The MLB refuses to release footage saying its “an embarrassment to the league”.
vKZD TIL Prisencolinensinainciusol was an Italian No. 1 pop hit written in fake American English. This is what English sounds like to foreigners. [4:02]