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TIL Japan has been the 5th country to land a spacecraft on the Moon

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919Q TIL that the majority of computers do not measure time in hours or days but instead use “Unix Time” which is the exact number of seconds that have passed since January 1st 1970. The current Unix time is 1467042820.
d8Rrr TIL that the largest beaver dam is 2,790 ft (850 m) in length, twice the width of the Hoover Dam!
p84xN TIL that in Ancient Egypt, the pharaoh alongside the general public would gather around to masturbate into the Nile river as a ritual ceremony to promote river fertility.
X0wA6 TIL of the Cypress of Kashmar, a tree said to have been planted by the son-in-law of the prophet Zoroaster, that at 1400 years of age was chopped down by the Abbasid Caliph Motavakol because he wanted it brought to him and "reassembled" in Baghdad. He was assassinated soon after it was chopped down.
N70D1 TIL At one point, the Beatles album "Revolver" was going to be named "After Geography", a pun on the Rolling Stones album "Aftermath".