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TIL in January of 1997, Astronaut John Grunsfeld placed a prank call to the NPR call-in show Car Talk during the Space Shuttle Atlantis mission STS-81.

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VB1yZ TIL about the Frankish Tower on the Acropolis of Athens, built in Medieval Greece and demolished by Heinrich Schliemann, the German national who later found (and badly damaged) the Site of Troy, who wanted any post-Classical buildings "cleaned-up" from the Acropolis
mxpRE TIL that during D-day, the USS Texas intentionality flooded a part of itself to help provide inland fire support. It flooded the starboard torpedo blister to list the ship 2 degrees, giving the ship’s guns enough elevation to continue its mission.
oB8kA TIL United Airlines had assured a blind woman that they would help her off the plane but only after the other passengers had gotten off, before forgetting about her and locking the plane up with her in it after everybody else had left.
wLWxJ TIL that Jim Hanks, the brother of Tom Hanks, does the voice acting for Woody in many commercials, shows, and games while Tom does the big movies and shows
woK6 TIL A ‘Tobacco Enema’, blowing smoke up someones backside, used to be used as a method of resuscitation when someone had drowned