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TIL Google is offering $20 million to any private team that can land on the moon by New Year’s Eve of 2016

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ANpww TIL that Ryan Gosling was in a band called Dead Man's Bones and they released an album in 2009
VM56k TIL - In 2017, Washington DC was rated America's 16th most dangerous city.
8aVMa TIL of William Colepaugh, who upon being discharged from the US naval reserve defected to Nazi Germany in 1944. Trained as a spy, he was landed ashore at Gulf of Maine by an U boat. He voluntarily surrendered after partying with the money meant for espionage activities.
xVj5D TIL that there's a font called Times Newer Roman which looks exactly like Times New Roman but is a tiny bit bigger so it looks like you wrote more.
PYlPn TIL Charlie Chaplin was given a 12-minute standing ovation at the Academy Awards gala in 1972, the longest in the Academy's history.