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TIL The Great Wall of China isn’t really visible from space - it’s just a myth.

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9BxX TIL Locks of Love made only 317 wigs in 2011 from more than 100,000 donations, while Pantene made ten times the wigs with nearly half the donations
wLAp8 TIL that, if extra-terrestrial life is found in our Solar System, it means the Great Filter (whatever keeps other life in the Cosmos from contacting us) is in Humanity's future, not its past. Basically, if we find life on Mars or Europa, we can be certain that our kind will never travel the stars.
KYYJB TIL the first music video shown on MTV was "video killed the radio star"
OKYX TIL that American soldiers used the ace of spaces as a terror weapon in the Vietnam War. They would leave the card on the bodies of killed Vietnamese and would litter the forested grounds with the card. The card was used so much that Bicycle was asked to produce crates full of this one card.
rGxM TIL that George Jung, from the movie ‘Blow’, is getting released from prison this year, in November.