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TIL Neil Young’s Silver & Gold album cover was made using a Game Boy Camera and Printer.

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X0wVQ TIL Col. Shaw carried a famous sword into his final battle, depicted in the film Glory (1989). Thought to be stolen by a Confederate soldier after his death, it was actually retrieved by one of his black soldiers. The sword was kept in the Shaw family attic for over 150 years and is now at MASSHIST.
A8jw TIL that in addition to upper and lowercase, there’s also camel case. It’sWhenYouWriteLikeThis.
mdVo TIL the furthest a human being has ever been from Earth was when Apollo 13 passed around the far side of the moon on April 15, 1970. At their furthest point, the crew were 248,655 miles from Earth.
RElj TIL when Australian cricketer and RAAF pilot Keith Miller was asked by Michael Parkinson, about pressure in cricket, Miller responded “Pressure is a Messerschmitt up your arse, playing cricket is not”.
JYmdk TIL the nursery rhyme "A-Tisket A-Tasket" was popularized by Ella Fitzgerald as a jazz standard