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TIL that the Apollo 12's lunar surface cuff checklists had pinup models/porn snuck in them by the backup crew ( who made the checklist ).

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7Ejx TIL the longest prison sentence ever given was 384,912 years long for failing to deliver mail.
XEy5j TIL when Jerry Lewis taught film directing at USC in the late ‘60s, George Lucas was one of his students and Steven Spielberg audited some of his classes. Lewis later screened Spielberg's short film Amblin' (1968) and told his students, "That's what filmmaking is all about."
d8rQ9 TIL in 1982, three guys lived on a billboard as part of a radio contest. The last one to come down would win an $18,000 mobile home. The contest became international news, one of the contestants was caught selling weed, and it went on for so many months that it had to be ended with two winners.
ADw7a TIL that peanuts are a fruit, and the only fruit that grows underground (root fruit!)
woPRP TIL Dora the Explorer speaks 33 different languages depending on which country you live in and which 2nd language is dominant.