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

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R77Mw TIL (organic) sponges are animals - not plants.
oBEOW TIL that one of the founders of the House Un-American Activities Committee, Samuel Dickstein, was himself a Soviet agent during the late 1930s.
6Enl TIL that the FBI assigned a team to Sacha Baron Cohen during the filming of Borat due to reports of a “Middle eastern man traveling the midwest in an ice cream truck.”
Me01A TIL that Janeane Garofalo married writer Robert Cohen in 1991 as a joke, not realizing the marriage was legitimate for 21 years when Cohen tried to get marry someone else
GgPN TIL in the 1980s, Pablo Escobar’s Medellin Cartel was spending $2,500 a month on rubber bands just to hold all their cash.