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TIL: John Delorean (designer of the Delorean DMC-12 “back to the future” car) was arrested for conspiracy to traffic narcotics, after being set up by FBI. Delorean was saved from prison after publisher Larry Flynt obtained and released tapes and documents that proved his innocence.

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grj6y TIL before going down the ladder of the lunar lander, Neil Armstrong threw a bag of trash on the moon. It then became the subject of the very first photograph he took on the moons surface.
8apyP TIL that the water in Lake Natron, Tanzania, has an extremely high soda and salt content, so high that it would cause the creatures crashing into it to calcify, perfectly preserved, like hard rock as they dry.
kODE5 TIL the Netherlands does not have stray dogs.
ZW4v TIL that carrier pigeons only know how to fly back to their home base. The infrastructure that supported this messaging system required regular deliveries of birds between cities and regular release of the birds so they did not imprint on a new location.
VBwXB TIL: On November 10, 1958, Harry Winston mailed the 45.52-carat Hope diamond in an envelope to the Smithsonian in Washington D.C. from New York City. The postage was $2.44 and the $1 million dollar insurance fee was $142.85 ($145.29 total).