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TIL that if you removed all of the empty space from our atoms, you could fit the entire human race into a volume the size of a sugar cube

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WnK8 TIL Woodie Guthrie’ copywrite claim to “This Land is Your Land” was for 28 years and stated “anybody caught singin it without our permission, will be mighty good friends of ourn, cause we don’t give a dern.” Today multiple organizations claim copyright for the song.
0ZA5 TIL after Fidel Castro’s health was reported to be “almost recovered”, President Bush said, “One day the Lord will take Castro away.” In response, Castro: “Now I understand why I survived Bush’s plans and the plans of other presidents who ordered my assassination: the Lord protected me.”
0wlmR Today I Learned that Neil Armstrong was paid the 2021 equivalent of around $490 for the time he spent on the moon.
v19ar TIL that former Waffen-SS soldiers guarded Nazi War Criminals during the Nuremburg Tribunal. This was because the soldiers were Latvian conscripts and did not choose to become soldiers out of their own free will, thus clearing their names and allowing their skills to continue to be put to use.
grAOX TIL: Playboy is also published in braille. It eventually became the sixth most popular periodical in the U.S. National Library Service for the Blind’s Braille magazine catalog