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TIL: Keep folding paper can create a Fractal call dragon curve

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69v08 TIL the Apollo 12, 16, and 17 American flags planted on the moon are the only flags left that are only visible from earth using the Lunar Reconnaissance Oribiter.
W7EJL TIL: You can name a cockroach after your ex at the San Antonio zoo
PYr6E TIL toothpicks were popularized by Charles Forster who bought the patent & targeted stationers who would not buy them; hired Harvard students to go to those retailers and ask for toothpicks, who had to turn away customers. Forster would return to those stores and later sell billions.
O1rR TIL after being assigned to create the first act of a play for his playwriting class, Matt Damon turned in a 40-some-odd-page document and said, “Look, I might have failed your class, but it is the first act of something longer.” This was later developed into the movie, ‘Good Will Hunting’.
LBr TIL in 1959 a pilot ejected from his jet at 45,000 feet and spent the next 40 minutes being thrusted up and down inside of a thunderstorm.