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TIL that the first man-made object that was send to space (above the Karman line) was German.

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vPlrR TIL of Loewe v. Lawlor, a 1908 Supreme Court case which outlawed secondary boycotts in the US. Union members were ordered to pay $234,000 ($5.8 M today) for organizing a boycott.
ne1jr TIL that another star passed through our solar system 70,000 years ago. Early humans may have looked up to see another star passing through our solar system.
GYM4E TIL when Primus played their song "My Name is Mud" at the rainy Woodstock 94, the crowd responded by pelting the band with mud. The band's singer, Les Claypool, stopped the song and said "when you throw things on stage, it's a sign of small and insignificant genitalia." The crowd ceased throwing.
R7ME1 TIL of Euthyphro dilemma, found in Plato's dialogue Euthyphro, in which Socrates asks Euthyphro question: "Is what is morally good commanded by God because it is morally good, or is it morally good because it is commanded by God?"
neZrG TIL the Hogwarts Express train in Harry Potter ACTUALLY exists in real life