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TIL that humanity put people on the moon before we put wheels on luggage

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WBBB TIL According to the patent for toilet paper, the creator, Setti Wheeler, made a drawing that shows the toilet paper should go over.
mxkxP TIL about the COLFAX, LOUISIANA, MASSACRE (1873). Approximately 150 Black men were murdered by white men with guns and cannons for trying to freely assemble at a courthouse.
VL1Z TIL SETI is the only organization in the world that publicly has a protocol set in place in the event a signal is received from extraterrestrial life.
LQAw9 TIL that reporter Marie Torre was arrested for ten days after writing a defaming column about singer Judy Garland’s weight being a reason her television contract was terminated and refusing to tell Garland who provided that information
9wA6Q TIL that physicist Lawrence Langer took a nap on the Little Boy nuclear bomb. It was the only "place where there was room to lie down" while he was keeping the curious away from the bomb the night before the Enola Gay's bombing run.