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TIL It's theorectically possible for a moon to have a moon, also known as a schmoon.

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w0aY TIL In the 1930’s, amidst wide spread poverty, flour mills realised that some woman were using sacks to make clothes for their children. In response, the flour mills started using fabric with flowers printed on for their sacks.
loo6N TIL Infamous sound barrier-breaking pilot Chuck Yeager happened to take down one of the world’s first jet fighters in WWII, so he gets to say, “The first time I ever saw a jet, I shot it down."
yQ8gX TIL in Finland the Black Sabbath song 'Paranoid' is regularly requested by concert goers as a joke much like the Lynyrd Skynyrd song 'Freebird' is in the United States. Regardless of the band or their musical style audiences will shout "Soittakaa 'Paranoid'!" ("Play 'Paranoid'!") during a concert
jaap TIL that the first successful anal fistula surgery was performed on Louis XIV in 1686. Anal fistulas then became highly fashionable among his royal court, with people lining up to undergo the procedure whether they needed it or not, or placing bandages on their bums to pretend that they did.
pLZb TIL in 2010 an MI6 spy was found dead, his naked body inside a padlocked bag in his flat in London. The Metropolitan Police concluded that he had accidentally locked himself in the bag and died as a result.