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TIL In August 2006, NASA announced that they had lost all of their original tapes of Apollo 11's TV transmission of the first humans landing on the moon

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ByoD TIL that James Cameron’s early script for Spider-Man (2002) was laced with profanity and strong violence and featured a lengthy and graphic sex scene between Peter Parker and Mary Jane.
v1jO4 TIL that Sweden is actually increasing forest biomass despite being the second largest exporter of paper in the world because they plant 3 trees for each 1 they cut down
Jr1V TIL in 1998, a Georgia high school student was suspended from school after wearing a Pepsi t-shirt on Coke Day. Upon hearing the news, a Pepsi spokesperson said, “Without knowing all the details, it sounds like (he’s) obviously a trendsetter with impeccable taste in clothes.”
14VD TIL that Patrick Stewart voiced Emperor Uriel Septim VII, in the Elder Scrolls: Oblivion, and Sean Bean voiced his son, Emperor Martin Septim.
697xm TIL that Quintus Servilius Caepio was a Roman statesman and general during the Roman Republic. Who after causing the Romans to lose the Battle of Arausio tried to blame Gnaeus Mallius Maximus, before stealing a vast amount of gold and silver from the Roman treasury, known as the "Gold of Tolosa."