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TIL Indiana State Congress once tried to legislate the value of Pi at 3.2 instead of 3.14159…

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p8nLb TIL When Michael Collins remained in the lunar module, he was in Orbit on the "other" side of the moon. He was cut off from all radio contact, the most alone any human has ever been.
VMQJQ TIL Clara Peller, a retired manicurist, was hired at age 80 as a temp on a commercial set. Her voice and manner brought an acting contract, and she became rich and famous from Wendy's "Where's the beef" campaign and later roles during the last 5 years of her life.
KR56 TIL, test pilot Tex Johnson did a barrel roll in a prototype 707 during a first look at a an air show with a lot of potential customers in attendance. When his boss called him into his office and said “What the hell were you doing?”, he replied “Selling Airplanes.”.
a46J TIL that before the dominance of HTML on the web, a protocol called GOPHER existed. Despite its linear navigation, lack of an hyperlink function, not having images, and the current lack of support from the main browsers, gopher:// sites such as Twitpher exist in a parallel, bizarre text driven web.
8aROL TIL in 1984 a group of paleontologists ate a buffalo stew that had been frozen for 30,000 years. The flavor was reported as tough with an earthy mushroom smell.