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TIL the Persian New Year (Nowruz) is celebrated on the Spring Equinox.

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b9NA7 TIL that the TV show Mork & Mindy is a spinoff of a specific episode of Happy Days, which featured Mork trying to take Richie back to his home planet. The show was trying to capitalize on the popularity of the recently released Star Wars.
9YaeM TIL In response to the film "Apollo 18", NASA engineer John Schuessler clarified that moon landings ended with Apollo 17 because NASA simply did not have the time or funds to fit in more moon landings after 1972. He also sees no evidence of extraterrestrial life on the Moon
D14Nv TIL Canada has a crude oil reserve over 4x the size of America's. North Korea has none.
p8XWe TIL the "X" in "Xmas" comes from the Greek letter "Chi".
QQne TIL that for a shot in Transformers, Michael Bay had the cast members run over “a carpet of explosives.” He warned them not to stop or trip. The actors’ look of terror is real.