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TIL that during first lunar landing Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were literally lost for the duration of being on the Moon. Neither NASA nor Michael Collins from Columbia module orbiting the Moon were able to locate the landed Apollo 11 for 22 hours it remained on the surface.

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Y7Zp7 TIL the movie In the Heat of the Night is notable for being the first in color major Hollywood movie to have lighting with proper consideration of black people. The lighting standard at the time produced too much glare on black skin, rendering features indistinct
wkwP TIL in 1924, children playing on the banks of a river in Germany discovered a human skull. More bones were discovered, eventually leading to the arrest of Fritz Haarman, who was butchering humans and selling their flesh as pork.
QNXZd TIL after noticing a decline in the Christmas Island pipistrelle, permission was given by the Australian govt. to capture and breed wild specimens. In Aug 2009, scientists only found one instance of the bat through echolocation after four weeks. It later went silent that same month.
0w74v TIL the largest sandwich ever made spanned 12ft by 12ft and was 0.44m (17.5 inches) thick, weighing 2467.5 kg (5440 lb). It contained 68 kg (150 lb) mustard, 468.1 kg (1,032 lb) corned beef, 117.9 kg (260 lb) cheese, 240.4 kg (530 lb) lettuce and 1,618.4 kg (3,568 lb) bread.
8lnZ TIL: There’s a restaurant in New York where menu prices rise and fall based on demand, just like the stock exchange