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TIL The rings of Saturn are only about 10 meters thick
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TIL the first U.S flag that was placed on the moon’s surface by Buzz Aldrin, was accidentally blown away by their craft during their departure and never found.
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TIL During a 1978 Monday Night Football game, to fill dead air, Howard Cosell commented on a delicious new snack he was eating, thus stadium nachos went mainstream.
aM5b
TIL One of the worst nuclear disasters involved 112,000 Brazilians being inspected after a piece of radiotherapy equipment was stolen. One man wanted to make his wife a ring from the glowing blue powder. She died.
R7MY8
TIL of thioacetone, a chemical compound so pungent that when it was accidentally released in 1889, people started vomiting, suffered nausea and even unconsciousness up to 750 metres (0.47 miles) away.
dZod
TIL that all Tabasco Sauce is manufactured in one factory owned by the same family since 1869.