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TIL in 1958 the USAF planned to nuke the moon.

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9YPPQ TIL of Major Digby Tatham-Warter, a British major who brought an umbrella into battle, using it to stop an armoured vehicle by poking the driver's eye and saving a chaplain. When a fellow soldier complained about it, he answered "oh my goodness, but what if it rains?"
BaJy TIL Pixar has created a completely functional website for the fake college Monsters University for the promotion of their upcoming film, Monsters University; complete with admissions info, majors, etc.
nl6Y TIL the 1998 sci-fi film “Lost in Space” is referred to by some as “the Iceberg” because it ended Titanic’s 15-week run as number one at the box office
wL6d6 TIL: Pigeons can't walk without bobbing their heads
E1yDV TIL that a tour group thought a woman was missing from their group because she changed her clothes. She even helped in her own missing person search before she realized that the group was looking for her.