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TIL that there is a myth in South Africa that raping a baby will cure AIDS

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78kV7 TIL:Over 50 years ago, Alan B. Shepard Jr. played a game of golf that was "out of this world." Almost 240,000 miles away from Earth, Shepard hit two golf balls on the surface of the moon.
v7vK TIL that in a few Appalachian forests there are fireflies that glow blue for up to a minute instead of flashing yellow
7rM7M til of Francis Noel Baker. the only man to win both an Olympic medal and a Nobel prize. he won a silver in the 1500m in the 1920 Olympics and the Nobel peace prize in 1959.
6ErZY TIL boom mic operator on the original Star Wars, Ken Nightingall, AKA the 'Pink Shorts Boom Guy', was uncredited for his work on Star Wars and, despite it winning both a BAFTA and an Academy Award for best sound, wasn't included on the award citation either.
mv6o TIL In Yao Ming’s first game in Miami, the Heat passed out 8,000 fortune cookies. Yao was not angry with the promotion because he was not familiar with American stereotypes of Chinese. Yao said he had never seen a fortune cookie in China and guessed it must have been an American invention.