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TIL Neil Armstrong's astronaut application arrived a week past the deadline. A friend slipped the tardy form in with the others.

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lojG7 TIl in addition to his sword, Ex Calibur, legendary King Arthur also had a spear named Ron.
dnbj TIL there is a hotel that sits right on the border of Switzerland and France. A set of stairs started in France and ended in Switzerland upstairs. The upper rooms were thus ideal as a hideout for French Resistance members during WWII as the Nazis weren’t allowed to cross into the Swiss side.
X04MQ TIL That in the movie Clueless, Josh is Cher's step-brother
mdvY TIL that President Roosevelt briefly used a limousine seized from Al Capone because the secret service was concerned that the existing presidential limo wasn’t sufficiently armored.
0vrN TIL, in China, before it there was a vaccine, smallpox scabs were ground up and blown up the noses of healthy people in order to immunize them.