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TIL Saturday Night Live was created because in 1974 Johnny Carson petitioned NBC for more time off.

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OGb4L TIL that there was an attempt in US Army to use camel as transportation in the Southwest in 19th century.
W7N0o TIL I learned that the US bombing of Cambodia in the 1970s was requested / approved by the Cambodian government
pvKO TIL Apollo 14 commander Alan Shephard once said “If somebody’d said before the flight, ‘Are you going to get carried away looking at the Earth from the Moon?’ I would have say, 'No, no way.’ But yet when I first looked back at the Earth, standing on the Moon, I cried.”
b9nB9 TIL that in March 1848, Niagara Falls froze over and was completely blocked with ice. Factories shuttered, the US Cavalary marched on the dry riverbed, loggers collected ancient logs, and souvenir hunters collected relics from the War of 1812
o07R TIL that during the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster pilot Michael Smith’s Personal Egress Air Pack was manually activated. Meaning he most likely survived the initial explosion, losing his life only when the cabin smashed into the ocean.