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TIL BBC delayed the release of David Bowie's song Space Oddity due to the Moon Landing

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aywM TIL The actors who played Ferris Bueller’s parents in the movie met during the filming and married in real life.
e0QE4 TIL that ketchup was first sold as medicine. In 1834 Dr. John Cooke Bennet invented the idea to add tomatoes to ketchup (a fish or mushroom mix at the time). He believed that adding tomatoes added the vitamins and antioxidants needed to cure indigestion, later prescribing tomato pills to patients.
rR4Xy TIL It can take a photon 40,000 years to travel from the core of the sun to the surface, but only 8 minutes to travel the rest of the way to earth.
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5V9Rp TIL that when Saddam Hussein was hiding in bunkers too deep for any bomb in the US inventory, the US filled an entire 16-foot hardened steel artillery barrel with explosives, welded fins to it and airdropped it, creating the first 'Bunker Buster'. Iraq withdrew from Kuwait the very next day.