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TIL that advance tickets to all three days of Woodstock cost $18, equivalent to only about $125 in 2019

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neV0G TIL that during the height of the Cold War, President Kennedy proposed the idea that the USA and USSR should work together to land a man on the moon. This was in order to minimise costs and to avoid doubling up on R&D.
QNJed TIL about Postpriandal Diarrhea, which occurs right after eating a meal and is often associated Irritable Bowel Syndrome and various strains of the Stomach Flu
8aMMb TIL that the author of the original Bambi story wrote a fictional pornographic autobiography of a child prostitute in Vienna that was so period accurate that literature scholars debated for decades as to whether it was a true story for decades.
Aajw TIL that the fighter squadron with the highest number of kills in the Battle of Britain during WWII were actually from Poland, and showed up two months after the battle had begun.
kOm6E TIL that Samuel L. Jackson’s lightsaber in Revenge of the Sith had BMF etched into the switch.