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TIL The gaming industry is bigger than both movies and music combined

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8a7vL TIL Pete Conrad (3rd Man on Moon) to prove a journalist wrong who thought the government told the astronauts what to say while on the moon bet her $500 dollars and said, "Whoopie! Man, that may have been a small one for Neil, but that's a long one for me." According to him, he never got that $500.
jN8mE TIL That the Moon could have been formed by a natural nuclear explosion.
X1Q TIL that St. Louis ran the 1904 Olympics so poorly that the Olympic movement nearly came to an end
4EQX TIL after the Haiti earthquake the “Feed The Children” website claimed that the charity was “providing medical relief for 12,000 people”. In reality they sent a total of three doctors, and two weeks after the eartquake it emerged that they had fed zero people.
kODD1 TIL we can’t see green stars (because of how black-body spectrum works)