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TIL you weigh measurably less when the moon is directly above you

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nRr TIL that in 1966, the US lost a hydrogen bomb in the Mediterranean Sea, and struggled to find it. Finally, a Spanish fisherman helped them find it, and asked for the $20 million finder’s reward that the US owed according to law.
j4xa TIL a 10 year old used his college savings to buy William “The Fridge” Perry’s Super Bowl ring and to give it back to him
78D67 TIL of Kryptos, an art installation featuring 4 chunks of encrypted text. The last fragment has yet to be solved.
R7Goa TIL that a species of Australian Nocturnal Ground Parrots thought to be extinct for 100 years were found by one man after 15 years of searching. His search began when he found one feather of this bird on a truck and traced it back to the farm of an Old Indigenous Gentleman.
4kBo6 TIL In 1972 Led Zeppelin were forced to cancel a gig in Singapore when local officials, seeing their long hair, refused to let them off the plane.