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TIL: NASA sent pics of Playboy Playmates to the moon.

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De6j TIL The McRib was introduced because McDonald’s was running out chicken for the McNuggets
d9Rr TIL the Kaaba was built in 2130 BC and was a site of pilgrimage for 2,700 years before the rise of Islam, including for Arabic Christians and Pagans
yVdWa TIL that the US Air Force jettisoned a nuclear bomb over Quebec in 1950 due to engine trouble in the B-50 bomber. Luckily, the plutonium core was not installed at the time. The USAF covered up the nuclear incident until the 1980s.
NXdeb TIL Paul McCartney was arrested in Japan in 1980 for possession of 219 grams of marijuana
5YeNR TIL That when fluoride was first introduced to American water supplies in the 1940s and 50s it was criticized as a Communist plot to socialize medicine and deplete the brain power of American children.