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TIL In the band Peaches & Herb there has been one Herb and seven Peaches

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R71NQ TIL Israel and the United States withdrew membership from UNESCO in 2018, claiming that the organization had an anti-Israel bias.
OGZyX TIL Neil Armstrong was filmed as he stepped on the moon with a $2.3 million upside-down camera. Westinghouse built for Apollo 11 a special model that the astronaut deployed by pulling a handle near the ladder he climbed down onto the lunar surface. NASA inverted the image for the TV audience.
oYvR TIL that prior to the 1820s, Christmas was a drunken revelry akin to Halloween. The poor would knock on the door of the rich and demand that they give them money or food.
96br TIL it is illegal to touch a pregnant woman’s belly in Pennsylvania
epBJE TIL: Baroque composer JS Bach used to hide his own name into his complex music using a "Musical Cryptogram": other composers have done the same since