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TIL there are more public libraries than McDonald’s in the U.S.

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rNdxw TIL that during the first moon landing, according to the schedule, the astronauts were SUPPOSED to sleep for a few hours first, keeping the entire world waiting, but they could not sleep and asked to go ahead of schedule and leave the lander early.
XxZP TIL that in the mid 90s you could get a network adapter for the SNES and Genesis that allowed you to play online multiplayer in games like MarioKart, MK3 and NBA Jam
V09m TIL In the Vietnam War, the US military produced recordings of ghostly voices and eerie sounds to play to the Vietcong, who believed that if a body wasn’t buried, the person’s soul would wander the Earth forever
4X1YJ TIL Disney paid $75 Million for rights to show Lin-Manuel Miranda’s ‘Hamilton’
wbXM TIL Alan Ruck and Matthew Broderick were close to 30 while acting as high school students in ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ (1986)