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TIL The Apollo 11 astronauts went to the Moon without life insurance. Instead, they signed hundreds of autographs and gave them to family members to sell if they died.

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4k4g5 TIL In the Battle of Port-en-Bessin, after D Day, British commandos (outnumbered 4 to 1 by the Germans) fought their way up through concrete, entrenchments, mines & barbed wire defences to take German positions one-by-one
e0X4J TIL After Franklin Roosevelt defeated Herbert Hoover in the 1932 US presidential election, he tried to change 'Hoover Dam' back to it's original name: 'Boulder (Canyon) Dam', but by then the name 'Hoover Dam' was too popular with Americans, and 'Boulder Dam' failed to catch on.
GYDoQ TIL: Research has shown that when speaking, individuals who have been congenitally blind and have thus never seen anyone gesture nonetheless make hand motions just as frequently and in the same way as sighted people do. In fact, they will gesture even when conversing with another blind person.
LkXMZ TIL when the first time a mile was run in under four minutes, the announcer was drowned out by the roar of the crowd when he said "The time was three..."
X15R TIL that aside from a Golden Globe in 2004, Leonardo DiCaprio has never won any major awards for his work