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TIL the first picture ever taken from space was taken fom a Nazi Rocket

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X0Zj6 TIL that sideburns are named after U.S. Civil War General Ambrose Burnside who was noted for his unusual beard, the word burnsides was coined to describe this style. The syllables were later reversed to give sideburns
gGw4 TIL that in 2017, a dairy company in Maine lost a lawsuit about overtime pay due to the absence of the Oxford comma.
R7lQl TIL in 1909, the citizens of Ulysses, Kansas, moved their whole city (including buildings) to evade exorbitant property taxes.
5YevR TIL On September 8, 2009, Sgt. Dakota Meyer disobeyed a direct order to pull back from his position so he could rescue wounded soldiers from a firefight a mile away. He ended up going back five times, saving the lives of 36 soldiers, saying “That’s what you do for a brother”.
VrVZ TIL that during the filming of ‘The Passion of Christ’ Jim Caviezel, who played Jesus, was struck by lightning… TWICE!