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TIL President Nixon decided that 135 countries of the world each deserved to have a piece of the moon collected by American astronauts, so he gave away Goodwill Moon Rocks. It is believed that as many as half of the Goodwill Moon Rocks have been lost or stolen

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MeW4b TIL that Samuel L. Jackson has appeared in 140 films, 55 television appearances, 4 theatre productions, 6 video-games, and voiced 2 audio books. His films alone have grossed a total $27 billion, making him the highest-grossing live-action actor of all time.
KMX4 TIL less knowledgeable people are more likely to over estimate their knowledge, and more knowledgeable people tend to underestimate.
nenjr TIL when shooting the cover for Pink Floyd's "Animals", the giant inflatable pig that was used for it broke loose from its moorings. It flew over Heathrow, and pilots spotted it flying 30,000 feet in the air, resulting in cancelled flights. It eventually landed at a farm in Kent, scaring some cows.
rRXLd TIL in 1941, with a lot of the Home Guard unarmed, Churchill wrote to the War Office that "every man must have a weapon of some sort, be it only a mace or a pike". The War Office took him literally and order 250,000 pikes, there was an uproar and none were ever issued.
kwbe TIL that Archaeologists has discovered a beautiful, huge, well-preserved stucco wall sculpture with its colors intact in Guatemala under a buried Mayan pyramid. The stucco frieze, measuring 30 feet long and 6 feet tall, is painted red, with details in blue, yellow and green.