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TIL : A man’s brain tumour caused him to orgasm whenever he looked at safety pins.

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NQZN TIL Mission Control acknowledged a thousand year old Chinese myth when it asked the Apollo 11 crew to keep an eye out for a beautiful Chinese girl named Chang-O who lived on the moon and a large rabbit standing in the shade of a cinnamon tree
R5Pa8 TIL of The Goliath Expedition. An expedition to walk around the globe - currently in year 27.
6ElwW TIL The term “jeep” originates from a Popeye’ comic book character in 1936 and was used for many military vehicles including airplanes. In the 40s both Ford and Willys MB (which later became Jeep) manufactured what we would call a Jeep.
wLn61 TIL that despite the Seven Years' War between Britain and France, France instructed its ships not to interfere with the Endeavour's expedition to Tahiti to observe the 1769 Transit of Venus as, it was ‘out on enterprises of service to all mankind'.
9EEG TIL although Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense” outsold any other book of its time, he didn’t make any profit, instead donating the sales to buy mittens for the troops in the American Revolution