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TIL-that “astronaut ice cream” that you see at every science museum store only ever went up with Apollo 8 and the crew denied ever eating it.

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OonN1 TIL during the 18th century, those who could not afford the three-pence admission to the London Zoo could supply a cat or dog instead to be fed to the lions.
epe6J TIL that the Islamic Republic of Iran allows gender transition surgery and subsidizes it. This was introduced by the Islamic revolutionary Khomeini after he came to power. Today, many Europeans travel to Iran for gender confirmation and reassignment surgery.
Dlpr TIL Gordon Ramsay while filming a scene about puffin hunting fell off an 85 foot cliff into water and survived.
NamM TIL “hocus pocus” may have been coined by Protestants to mock the Catholic transubstantiation incantation used to turn bread and wine into flesh and blood, “hoc est corpus.”
y4LV TIL Gordon Northcott, who molested and murdered several boys in the 1920s, and the movie The Changeling is based on, upon the day of his hanging asked, “Will it hurt?” To which the guards replied, “No one’s ever complained.”