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TIL a NASA Flight Controller Rode His Horse To Mission Control Because The Parking Permit For His Car Was Revoked.

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1r97 TIL in January 1913 alone, Josip Broz Tito, Sigmund Freud, Adolf Hitler, Vladimir Lenin, and Leon Trotsky were all patrons of the same cafe in Vienna
16a8V TIL in 1969, top composer Louis Andriessen and others disrupted a Dutch Concertgebouw Orchestra concert with nutcrackers and bicycle horns, giving leaflets about the lack of Dutch new music in the orchestra's programming. They did a week in jail but sparked some Dutch music scene change.
16MLV TIL that almonds are a member of the peach family.
v1gPK TIL a professional photographer designed his home in the shape of a camera
4EpJ TIL Mayhem is an actual crime and means the intentional maiming of another person.