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TIL Neil Armstrong would tell unfunny jokes about the moon and follow them with “you woulda had to be there.”

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XEJrE TIL Los Angeles’s private golf courses effectively receive a public subsidy of $89.8 million in taxes” paying only $200,00 in property taxes without granting the public access to the land. LA ranks bottom of the list in terms of public parks against all major metropolitan cities in America.
kO8Xg TIL that besides Chernobyl and Fukushima, there was a Soviet nuclear disaster that happened on 1957. The Kyshtym Disaster. Death toll is estimated to be at 50 to more than 8,000. The CIA knew about it but covered it up to prevent panic affecting their own nuclear plants.
M4Z8 TIL The Spindle, the iconic car sculpture seen at the beginning of Waynes World, was dismantled in 2008 to build a Walgreens
4PYw TIL - There are only two countries in the world where drug companies are permitted to advertise to the public: New Zealand and USA.
16kk7 TIL that Everlast is the stage name of a solo artist, not a band, and be used to be in House of Pain.