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TIL The flag erected on the Moon during the Apollo 11 landing was purchased at a local Sears store for US$5.50.

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JYnaQ TIL During the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918, the Girl Scouts helped by cooking and delivering meals to patients throughout the city. They are credited with saving the lives of people too poor to afford doctors and preventing malnourished children from succumbing to influenza.
Y84v TIL approximately 90% of all gunpowder used by the Patriots during the American Revolution was supplied by France.
a8AY0 TIL: A Single Watermelon Once Sold For $6100
J0vm TIL the Resistance in Amsterdam attacked the population register, which identified religilous belief, with a fire bomb in 1943 to stop the Nazis using it for their extermination program. Fire fighters took as much time as possible to arrive and drowned unburnt parts in water, destroying even more.
RQ18 TIL, in 1979, a small town in Australia fined the United States $400 for littering after debris from NASA’s Skylab space station landed in the town. The fine was paid in 2009.