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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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69RdQ TIL Swans have more than 20,000 feathers!
LMRv TIL in 2011, two judges were convicted in a scheme that involved $2.6 million in kickbacks from owners of private detention centers in exchange for diverting over 4000 juvenile defendants to the private detention centers, often for minor crimes such as mocking a principal on Myspace and trespassing
VMdXQ TIL that it is illegal to perform any homosexual activities in lebanon. Article 534 of the Lebanese Penal Code prohibits having sexual relations that are "contradicting the laws of nature", which is punishable by up to a year in prison.
oAA TIL that owls are unable to move their eyes in any direction.
neWKW TIL Jack Nicholson thought he was raised by a mother and a sister, but in reality they were his grandma and mother.