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TIL the song Fly Me to the Moon became the first music heard on the moon, when Buzz Aldrin played it on a cassette

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8edV TIL that the charter of the United Nations still states that Germany is an enemy country, even though it is now the third biggest financial contributor.
yVYbw TIL that the biggest butterfly in the world has a 31cm wingspan. It belongs to the Queen Alexandra's Birdwing butterfly, which you can find in the forests of the Oro Province, in the east of Papua New Guinea.
ep075 TIL French composer Olivier Messiaen wrote his avant garde masterpiece "Quartet For The End Of Time", inspired by Book Of Revelation and birdsong, on a prisoner-of-war camp in Görlitz, Germany on the available instruments. It was also premiered there in 1941.
0w9Zy TIL "Miss America" is actually abbreviated. Originally it was, "The Most Beautiful Bathing Girl in America," and the winner was judged solely on their bathing suit.
9Y5WQ TIL when Consumer Reports tested a Renault 12 in 1972, the car had 34 defects, including a connecting rod breaking through the engine block, loosened flywheel bolts and the windshield wiper motor burning. The best car in the comparison, Toyota Corolla, had only 9 defects.