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TIL that employees at N.A.S.A. smoked on average 29 cigarettes a day before the first moon landing.

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Z84JR TIL of the Tulsa Center of the Universe. An acoustic anomaly located in Oklahoma. When one stands in the center of the circle and makes a noise, that noise is echoed back several times louder than it was made, but no one standing outside the circle can hear a thing.
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VMPmQ TIL In 1996 The cast of Frasier conducted an alcoholism intervention at Kelsey Grammer's home after he crashed his Dodge Viper while driving drunk.
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