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TIL our galaxy isn’t just a spiral galaxy but a bar galaxy

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W7J4o TIL on February 9, 1964 the Beatles performed for the first time on Ed Sullivan. Around 73 million viewers watched their performance which, at the time, was the most-watched program in American television history. From there the Beatles domination of the music market began.
X0J68 TIL in the 1980s, NASA had a 1-900 number which charged $2 for the first minute and $.45 for each additional minute. It allowed callers to listen in on a mission status report and mid-flight press conferences, and thousands of them heard the Challenger explosion in real time.
4k45 TIL that a rebellion led by the self-proclaimed “brother of Jesus” nearly toppled the Qing Dynasty in China during the 1800’s.
eBQJ TIL Bill Murray says that he only agreed to make Garfield because he thought the script was written by the Coen Brothers (Fargo, No Country For Old Men). It wasn’t. It was written by Joel Cohen, the man who wrote Daddy Day Camp.
xVjnB TIL that males who have married into the British royal family can never become King: they only have the opportunity of being Prince consort (however, females who marry in have the opportunity of becoming Queen).