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TIL that Phil Collins performed at Live Aid on both sides of the Atlantic, at London's Wembley Stadium and Philadelphia's JFK Stadium

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4kKEN TIL one of the largest impact craters in our solar system is the South Pole-Aitken basin, on the surface of the moon, measuring 1600 miles (2500km) in size.
N7GBb TIL Russian president, Boris Yeltsin, ended up in front of the White House drunk and in his underwear because he wanted to go get pizza. After being escorted back to the Blair House and getting his pizza, Yeltsin tried to do it again the next night.
oBvOY TIL Uraguay flight 571 crashed in the Andes in the 70s; survivors waited 2 months for help, all while being forced to eat the raw flesh of dead passengers. Two men walked 10 days and 40 miles through the mountain to safety
gMBB9 TIL there are more stars in the sky than grains of sand on Earth. The size of the universe is inconceivably large.
j6x5j TIL: TNT network has broadcast 12 consecutive runs of A Christmas Story over a 24-hour period every Christmas since 1997.