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TIL that the backup crew for Apollo 12 snuck Playboy pictures into the prime crew’s mission checklist. It also contained geology jokes, such as “observe the protuberances.”

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0wLBA TIL about the Lost Cause of the Confederacy, "They say that history is written by the victors, but the Civil War has been the rare exception.....the South’s version has held sway in our schools, our literature and, since the dawn of feature films, our movies." — Mick LaSalle
VB1ym TIL the Dutch king, Willem-Alexander, revealed back in 2017 that he had been co-piloting KLM flights twice a month for 21 years in addition to royal duties.
Oov4 TIL Tommy Boy is a rendition of Shakespeare’s Hamlet: Tommy is the Prince, his father dies, his mother (Bo Derek) is Gertrude, in reality married to his “step brother” (Rob Lowe) who is Claudius. David Spade’s character is Horatio.
vQjR TIL that North Korea’s International Friendship Exhibition, a collection of gifts given to the nation, includes a VHS copy of the movie Space Jam
b9lbp TIL of the JFK Records Act, an act that states that all government documents related to the Kennedy assassination be publicly disclosed on October 26 2017.