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TIL fake Xmas trees have to be used for 20 years to be more environmentally friendly than using real trees

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6XdX TIL Mike Tyson was high on cocaine when filming his cameo in The Hangover
W8WA TIL The Average Net Worth of Americans Ages 18-30 is -$17,612 in 2017
rRamd TIL of Operation Pastorius, a German WWII mission of sabotage inside the United States. It failed primarily due to defections, but was in danger of being compromised right from the start as one of the agents, when drunk, announced to patrons at a bar in Paris that he was a secret agent.
Me6LV TIL about Eugene Shoemaker. He was a geologist in the mid 1900's who wanted to go to the moon. He failed the medical exam to go to the moon, but he still helped train astronauts on Apollo 11,12, 13. After dying in a car crash his ashes made it to the moon. To this day they're still there.
p8vme TIL that when someone set Cleverbot up talking to itself, it (they?) almost immediately started talking about God