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TIL the ghost "Slimer" from the first Ghostbusters movie was not named until the 1986 animated television series "The Real Ghostbusters".

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d8m7Z TIL When Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon, Buzz performed communion, drinking wine from a church chalice. NASA chose not to broadcast it because of the religious nature of the event.
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OEG7 TIL that the number of people living in the USA that are illiterate is almost equal to the entire population of Canada (32,000,000 vs 35,000,000)
e1Y5 TIL: Over the course of two weeks, a single human male produces enough sperm to impregnate every fertile woman on the planet.
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