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TIL that at the height of the space race, the US planned to detonate a nuclear bomb on the moon as a display of America's Cold War muscle.

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9oG TIL When Rod Serling was a child he was able to entertain himself so well that when his family was on a road trip they all kept quiet to see if he would notice. He didn’t and talked non-stop through the entire car ride.
EW8X TIL a portion of the “snow” seen on television screens is microwave radiation left over from The Big Bang.
x6EJo TIL that NFL football players pee in a little tent on the sidelines of the field! I previously thought they just had to hold it until halftime or end of game!
kOD77 TIL about "Deafheads" who held balloons against their bodies in order to hear/feel the music at Grateful Dead concerts
68r7 TIL In WWII, a Polish soldier volunteered to be thrown in Auschwitz and escape to prove to the Allies that the Holocaust was real.