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TIL The upside-down cross is actually the sign of St. Peter and thus, The Pope.

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Br68W TIL Grumman Aerospace Corporation—makers of the Apollo 13 Lunar Module—sent a $312,421.24 bill to North American Rockwell—who made the service module that malfunctioned—for towing services.
loDWr TIL that in 1962, president John F Kennedy snagged 1200 Cuban cigars for himself before he banned their import.
R4D1 TIL that China has built a new skyscraper every five days, more than 30 airports, metros in 25 cities, the three longest bridges in the world, more than 6,000 miles of high speed railway lines and 26,000 miles of motorway, all in the last 5 years.
VMEa0 TIL During the Cuban missile crisis, Kennedy said: “Why does he put these in there, though? … It’s just as if we suddenly began to put a major number of MRBMs in Turkey. Now that’d be goddamned dangerous, I would think.” His advisor immediately pointed out: “Well we did it, Mr. President.”
ydlV TIL A guy named Joshua Abraham Norton declared himself Emperor of the United States and the citizens of San Francisco went along with it.