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TIL that the Moon emits a constant tail of sodium. When small meteorites hit the surface of the Moon, the sodium from the dust that is emitted is picked up by the solar wind and blown away in a specific direction.

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EWEo TIL in 1955 the US designed a nuclear powered cruise missle. The SLAM’s unshielded reactor would sicken, injure, and/or kill living things beneath its flight path and its strategically selected crash site would receive intense radioactive contamination.
OoeAe TIL conductor Mstislav Rostropovich was exiled from the U.S.S.R. for supporting Democracy. When he returned in 1990, he closed his first performance in the Moscow Conservator with “The Stars and Stripes Forever” to great ovation
VMnEQ TIL about the meanings of the famous quote from Monty Python and the Holy Grail, “your mother was a hamster and your father smelled of elderberries”. The hamster likened a mother to a fast breading rodent and elderberry was a common kind of wine, implying the father was a drunk.
MeyMa TIL: When a friend wrote "KURT SMELLS LIKE TEEN SPIRIT" on a wall, Kurt Cobain assumed it was an anti-establishment slogan and wrote a hit song. Months later he found out his friend had been making fun of him. Kurt's girlfriend wore Teen Spirit, deodorant marketed to teenage girls.
m45p TIL that there is a Geocache hidden aboard the International Space Station. So far, only one person has found it.