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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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OGJLe TIL in 1975, the founder of Playboy, Hugh Hefner, lent his private plane the "Big Bunny" to operation baby lift to help transport 41 orphaned Vietnamese children to New York.
aw4EL TIL Palau is the first country on Earth that requires every visitor to sign a Passport pledge upon entry to act in an environmentally conscious way on the island for the sake of their children and future generations
v16rK TIL Finland has a self-care practice called pantsdrunk. It's recommended that, after coming home from work, citizens take their pants off and drink.
YpZyx TIL Simon & Garfunkel's first album was so unsuccessful on the charts that the duo split. Their producer took one of the songs from the album, overdubbed/remixed it without their knowledge or permission, and "The Sounds of Silence" became a hit. The duo made four more albums.
VJED TIL: There is a device that harvests energy from WiFi signals which can then be converted to electricity to charge mobile devices.