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TIL Dick Cavett did not realize he was in the movie Apollo 13 until he was at the theater watching it and saw himself.

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8JpZ TIL in 1561 the citizens of Nuremberg witnessed an aerial battle of UFOs that lasted for over an hour, with strangely shaped objects fighting each other until one side was the victor. There was even a crash landing, whos wreckage was taken away in the end by a vessel
wojgJ TIL The first recorded steel cage wrestling match happened between Jack Bloomfield and Count Rossi in Atlanta, Georgia June 25th, 1937. The cage was a circular chicken wire structure.
rRD6e TIL that the discovery of radium ignited a health fad in the early 1900s that saw it being used as a medical cure-all, in lipsticks, chocolates, toothpaste, water, health spas, treatment of impotence and chicken-feed!
b9ga7 TIL the average age people on the autism spectrum die is only 36
0wdY5 TIL Despite New York City's expensive cost of living, you can still buy 0.99¢ pizza at over a dozen places.