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TIL There are almost 100 bags of human waste (feces, vomit, urine) on the moon.

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joEj TIL that US senators sought to ban ‘Mr. Smith Goes to Washington’ from theaters for “[making] the Senate look like a bunch of crooks”
Y7Zyd TIL In Finland, cab drivers are required by law to pay royalty fees for songs played on their taxi radio while working & conveying paying passengers. The reason being, cabbies use music for commerce while making a profit. A fixed sum is to be paid to the Finnish Composers' Copyright Society annually
YpO5A TIL JFK was on a yacht in the Mediterranean with a mistress as Jackie Kennedy gave birth to a stillborn child in 1956
j79M TIL that in 1934, future president Gerald Ford threatened to quit his college football team unless his black teammate was allowed to play in a game against Georgia Tech
epBaE TIL while in Harvard University, Dale Maple was removed from the German Club for singing the "Horst-Wessel-Lied" and was dismissed from ROTC for praising dictatorship. During WW2, he helped German POWs to escape, was sentenced to hang and was commuted to 10 years