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TIL the most famous video of the Apollo 11 moon landing is not the original footage, but a lower-quality recording of a monitor in Australia. NASA accidentally erased the original tapes.

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OG8JL TIL the Appalachian Mountains are amongst the oldest mountains on Earth. So old, in fact, that they predate life and so they have no fossils.
xVON5 TIL in the final years of World War II, Italian businessman Giorgio Perlasca risked his life by posing as a Spanish diplomat in order to save more than 5,000 Hungarian Jews from the Holocaust. Perlasca, a non-Jew, has been honored for his heroism, courage, and compassion by several nations
xVNQB TIL Woody Allen's film "A Rainy Day in New York" ran into issues that delayed it's released from 2018 to 2019. 2018 was the first time an entire calendar year had gone by without a new Woody Allen film since 1981.
e0xQD TIL Helium was first discovered on the Sun (named from the Greek word 'Helios', meaning "the Sun") through the analysis of the Sun's spectrum, and is the only element in the Periodic Table to be discovered some place other than Earth.
694B8 TIL: the last stage robbery was on December 5, 1916,