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TIL After the Apollo 1 fire, NASA needed to rebuild its devastated Apollo program. They approached cartoonist Charles Schulz, creator of the comic strip Peanuts, for permission to use Snoopy as their mascot for safety. He agreed.

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WO8B TIL in 1897 Frank Hann noticed creeks in Western Australia flowed inland, and followed them, expecting to find a large fresh water lake. To his disappointment, the lake turned out to be salt and subsequently named it Lake Disappointment.
xNw1 TIL Rick Astley has only earned $12 in royalties from the ‘RickRoll’ meme
6EXRw TIL during a press conference in June 1943 Congressman Andrew May noted that Japanese depth charges detonated too soon to be effective. The Japanese changed depth charge tactics after the press releases, killing 800 US submariners
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