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TIL In 1985, Neil Armstrong and Edmund Hillary went to the North Pole together.

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D1gkY TIL that in 1981 the Pentagon spent $6 million trying to determine whether or not burning a photograph of a Soviet missile would destroy the actual missile
0MgN TIL: The Word ‘Nothing’ in the title of Shakespeare’s 'Much Ado About Nothing’ was Elizabethan Slang for 'Pussy.’
gM5Ay TIL Julius Caesar was "slut shamed" for an alleged sexual relationship with King Nicomedes Bithynia. Not because it was of a homosexual nature, but because Caesar was allegedly the receptive partner. The accusation may have been a political smear, but it bothered Caesar for the rest of his life.
8YoG TIL that a duck’s feathers are so waterproof that even when the duck dives underwater, its downy underlayer of feathers will stay completely dry.
WkkPd TIL about Henrietta Laacks, who died in 1951, yet her tumor cells have been cultivated to this day. The immortal cell line is used in scientific research. It is the oldest and most commonly used human cell line.