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TIL Giant Goose Existed

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l7Q7K TIL about The Miracle of 1511, when the people of Brussels built pornographic snowmen as a form of protest against their rulers.
OoZne TIL Syphilis, gonorrhea, and chlamydia infection rates are at their highest level since the CDC began keeping track of chlamydia cases in 1984.
nJJr TIL Hitler annexed Austria through a rigged popular referendum. The bubble representing “No” to union was half the size of “Yes” and was shoved to the corner of the ballot.
grnVb TIL: That during the Apollo 11 moon landing, Neil Armstrong was the only one operating the Hasselbad camera and almost all pictures he took were of Buzz Aldrin, NASA could only find 1 picture of Armstrong taken by Aldrin (who was busy with experiments) on that fateful day
GY4LE TIL: Petrus Plancius, in 1612 created the Unicorn Constellation (Monoceros Unicornis) to fill the empty area between two large constellations, Orion and Hydra.