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TIL not that long ago, you could go to jail for kissing … in Ireland

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1kEX TIL Pope Paul VI spent the night of July 20,21 1969 watching the moon through a telescope of the Vatican Observatory during the first moon landing. Afterward, he praised the achievement by writing at length about the event
p8gWG TIL in 1959 Cornell physicists had speculated that any extraterrestrial civilization attempting to communicate via radio signals might do so using a frequency of 1420 mHz which is naturally emitted by hydrogen. 18 years later that exact transmission was read in Ohio, nicknamed the "Wow! signal".
ZlWo TIL that it takes 8,000 pounds of force to pull apart two interlocked phone books. You could literally hang two full sized cars from them.
ndXY TIL hamsters and gerbils are illegal in Australia
GYP8J TIL Casey Kasem declined to reprise his role as Shaggy in "Scooby Doo on Zombie Island" because he had recently gone vegan and wanted that reflected in the character, which was not upheld. This resulted in Billy West's one and only credit for portraying Shaggy.