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TIL American Billionaire Andrew Carnegie Offered To Buy The Philippines’ Freedom from US Colonization For $20 Million

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0wWjL TIL that Russian cosmonauts aboard Soyuz 7 took into space a cassette of Pink Floyd’s Delicate Sound Of Thunder, making them the first rock band to be played in space. The cassette was still aboard three years later when Mir burned up on re-entry
x6jBB TIL Australia bans instagram users from seeing how many likes they get
aw86b TIL that the ancient Romans built an artificial waterfall which to this day is the tallest man-made waterfall in the world.
NXrjN TIL Whacking Day, a yearly event depicted in The Simpsons where the townspeople kill snakes, was a real event in Eastchester, New York from 1665 onwards. Records stated: "That one day every spring be chosen for the destroying of rattle snakes."
Njr1 TIL Admiral Ackbar from “Return of the Jedi” was not a man in a suit, but a giant puppet.