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TIL Adventurer Robert Swan's eye color altered permanently from dark to light blue after walking through a hole in the ozone layer during his trek to the South Pole.

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awgKJ TIL that in 1982, 10yo actress Samantha Smith wrote a letter to USSR Gen. Secretary Yuri Andropov asking if he would engage in nuclear war. Yuri invited her to Moscow. She was greeted as a celebrity. She died 3 years later in a plane crash after capturing the attention of the world for her efforts.
8gkb TIL Chef Boyardee was a real and talented chef that catered President Wilson’s wedding reception.
6EGWm TIL The giant silverware company Oneida Limited started out as a 19th century free love comune. Both older men and women were chosen to be sexual mentors to adolescent members of the opposite sex. And they also made silverware.
jN40a TIL of a gene named 'mothers against decapentaplegic', parodying 'Mothers Against X'-type organizations
69dBQ TIL: The only number one song from Chuck Berry, "The Father of Rock and Roll", is the song My Ding-a-Ling.