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TIL of the extinct sport of Barrel Jumping existed with a record jump of 18 barrels (nearly 30’!)

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YpabZ TIL that the 2002 movie 'A Very Muppet Christmas' features the World Trade Centre still standing in an alternate reality in which Kermit was never born.
QJ5Zd TIL Every "face" actor at Disney must spend time as a mascot character before they can recieve training for face characters.
JYZJk TIL there exists a separate time zone on the moon. It’s called Lunar Standard Time (LST) and the calendar started on July 21st, 1969 at 02:56:15 UT, the moment Neil Armstrong stepped foot on the moon.
8anmZ TIL that the game "50 Cent: Blood in the Sand" had a helicopter mission added to it late in the development process because 50 Cent's son asked for helicopters to be in the game
8lRV TIL the president of Algeria in 1992 was assassinated during a speech, his last words being “Look at those developed countries that are way ahead of us, why? they are ahead of us because of science, but the Islamic countries…”