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TIL that third Mithridatic War Was Interrupted by a meteor crashing between two opposing armies.

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E1Y0p TIL there is only one photo of Neil Armstrong on the surface of the moon during the Apollo 11 mission but his back is to the camera, rendering it unusable & as a result, all of the widely circulated/most iconic photos of an Apollo 11 astronaut on the moon are actually of Buzz Aldrin.
wv4E TIL that in 1978 the Canadian Museum of Nature fabricated a heist story to cover up the fact that they’d misplaced their Goodwill Moon Rock. The story was only given to one person: the 17 year old who’d delivered it 4 years earlier. He later found it in 2000 in a giant warehouse for museum exhibits.
P1KyV TIL that US interstates are numbered in numerical order
4kOlN TIL the Albanian National Football Team was once arrested at Heathrow airport for walking out with over £2500 worth of goods at a duty-free shop thinking “duty-free” meant “all free”
VBRaB TIL there’s a term for the feeling of the pressure you feel in your ears when driving fast and only have rear windows down: The Helmholtz Resonance.