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TIL Jamie Foxx was such a good joke teller his second grade teacher used him as a reward- be good and Jamie will perform for us.

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Z8pJa TIL Babies were born without bones in the Marshall Islands following the testing of nuclear bombs by the United States in the 1950's
xgbg TIL there’s a day called “Ed Balls day”, celebrating when british politician Ed Balls accidentally entered his intended search term in the wrong box on Twitter, and ended up sending a tweet saying “Ed Balls”. On its anniversary, each 28 April, followers retweet his original message.
p8DbA TIL kangaroos are good swimmers. They swim to avoid predators, and can use their forepaws to drown pursuers.
R5l0j TIL that Pan Am were booking flights to the moon, between 1969 & 1971, they processed around 93,000 reservation tickets for free. They stopped taking reservations because of the admit costs but maintained well into the 1980's that the tickets would be honoured, if and when flights were possible.
5YWXD TIL of the Giant Impact hypothesis, where a Mars-sized planet, Theia, is theorized to have collided with Earth 4.5 billion years ago. The debris from both planets eventually coalesced to form the Moon.