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TIL the Eagle lunar ascent stage from Apollo 11 may still be orbiting the Moon.

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W7L5N TIL in 2012, Canada had a $100 bill featuring an Asian-looking woman using a microscope, but after focus group complaints, changed her ethnicity to Caucasian.
Wkjr9 TIL of John Nixon, an 88-year-old former commando who attacked five robbers who were mugging a woman. He was stabbed in the hands and head after trying to disarm one of them. They fled afterwards, leaving empty handed. Nixon survived the encounter and recovered in hospital.
9wPXp TIL Greyhound offers their Home Free Program w/ Bus Ticket for Runaway, Homeless & Exploited Youth for Free to get to a parent, legal guardian or alternative safe living arrangement.
Rvrj TIL that Bryan Cranston voiced many monsters in the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers and the Blue Ranger (Billy Cranston) is named after him
Aby4 TIL that before white sugar became popular, the industry launched a smear campaign against brown sugar which showed microbes living in the product, in an attempt to control brown sugar production.