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TIL in the sixties USA considered detonating a nuclear warhead on the moon to boost morale

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PJPL TIL: The director Roman Polanski pleaded guilty of raping a 13 year old girl in 1977 but fled the U.S to avoid charges, this is why his 2011 film Carnage staring Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, Christoph Waltz and John C. Reilly although set in New York was actually filmed in Paris.
GAWDG TIL More than 80 percent of the ocean has never been mapped, explored, or even seen by humans and as a result, we know more about the surface of Mars than Earth
rNRyM TIL that General Porter was expelled from the Army during the Civil War and spent 17 years trying to clear his name. He retired 2 days after being reinstated.
Yp6l7 TIL In the 80's a shipping container full of Garfield landlines fell overboard off the coast of France. To this day these phones are still found off the Britanny/Normandy coast.
ANPy7 TIL Lucy Hester Stanhope (1776-1839), a British adventurer and archaeologist, discovered a 7-foot tall Greco-Roman statue which she then smashed into pieces and tossed into the Mediterranean because she wanted to prove to the Ottoman government that she had no interest in stealing their antiquities.