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TIL that In 70,000 B.C. Human beings almost went extinct; dwindling to as few as 40 ‘breeding pairs’ after the eruption of the Toba supervolcano!

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0dkMR TIL The Apollo 11 astronauts have a "circular" star on The Hollywood Walk of Fame. Neil Armstrong and co are recognised by Hollywood not for being the first humans on the moon, but for their "contributions to the television industry". [more in comments]
XERwX TIL of Le Pétomane, a french flatulist (professional farter) who performed at the Moulin Rouge in the 1890s. He was said to have been so skilled as to be able to mimic the sounds of cannon fire and thunderstorms, as well as the sounds of farm animals.
kVxd TIL that the soviet cosmonauts celebrated the moon landing in 1969 “with joy and vodka”
nW59 TIL There is a radio station transmitting an intermittent beep since 1982 and nobody knows why. Occasionally Russian voices can be heard as well.
XxPQ TIL scientists still don’t fully understand Triboluminescence, the phenomenon responsible for making wintergreen Life Savers glow in the dark