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TIL the word ‘space’ was first used to reference the area beyond Earth's sky in John Milton's Paradise Lost in 1667.

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Olr4 TIL Old Spice put a real phone number in a commercial and gave away Super Bowl tickets to the first two callers.
E1eRp TIL Knights would work out in their armor and put weights on their swords to make themselves more effective in combat. One knight even climbed a 60-foot ladder in armor by hand, with no foot support.
pVrO TIL that Santa Claus is real in the Marvel Universe and is a very powerful mutant.
nWpaY TIL about The Secret a treasure hunt created by Byron Preiss. The hunt involves a search for twelve treasure boxes, the clues to which were provided in a book written by Preiss in 1982, also called The Secret. These boxes were buried at secret locations in cities across the United States and Canada
LrQp TIL during the Challenger search and recovery, sailors found a floating duffle bag full of cocaine, worth $13 MIL - enough to the pay for the Navy’s search and recovery efforts. [pdf]