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TIL that piercings can be rejected by the body

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WkV5X TIL that upon return from the moon, the Apollo 11 astronauts had to go through US Customs. They declared rocks, dust, and other lunar samples.
le0N TIL that when the KKK successfully lobbied to adopt a highway in Missouri, the Governor had the name of that stretch of road changed to Rosa Parks Highway
BELb TIL that a single Polish Wikipedia vandal got an entire city (of over 700k people) banned from editing Wikipedia for several days…
8e6v4 TIL Popcorn icon Orville Redenbacher Died By Drowning in A Hot Tub
9wMkB TIL Salem's eerie landmark, the Witch House, never housed witches. It was home to Judge Jonathan Corwin, known as "the hanging judge" from the Salem witch trials of the late 1600s, where 19 people were sentenced to death.