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TIL All The American Flags on The Moon are Now White Because of The Intense UV Radiation From The Unfiltered Sunlight

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p8pkb TIL the most expensive item purchased on the TV Show 'Pawn Stars' was a series of original sketches of the book 'Where the Wild Things Are' by Maurice Sendak. Rick paid $250,000 for the sketches.
VBQw4 Today I learned that Gene Simmons from the band Kiss was flattered to find out that he has a Pokémon lookalike.
bPLa TIL There is a German beer with the registered trademark “Fucking Hell”, where Fucking refers to a Village in Austria and Hell is a german sort of Lager.
pk9G TIL that when a scientist attempted to blow the whistle on the FDA for approving an unsafe medical device, the FDA installed spyware to record his private emails and surfing activities, and then used the information to smear him and other whistleblowers.
waK1 TIL: That term bullshit is not actually derived from A Bull’s shit as commonly understood. But actually old French word bole meaning fraud, deceit.