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TIL Neil Armstrong’s astronaut application form arrived a week past the deadline. His friend Dick Day saw the late arrival of the application and slipped it into the pile before anyone noticed.

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61jm TIL that there was a now extinct species of crocodile that could gallop.
7E7x TIL in the 1980 US presidential election neither Jimmy Carter nor Ronald Reagan were allowed to privately raise funds, as they could only spend the money that was allocated to them under federal election law
rNBD0 TIL that bovines (cows/bulls) can't see the color red.
jBQv TIL an 8ft. LEGO man labeled ‘No Real Than You Are’ washed up on a Dutch beach in 2007. Origins remain unknown.
5YmWr TIL that French people referred to Marie Antoinette as ", l'Autrichienne" which literally means Austrian woman but with emphasis on word "chienne" which means "bitch". So she was called Austrian bitch.