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TIL about Gimcheon Sangmu FC, a professional Korean football club owner by the military where every player is a professional footballer who is currently serving their two year military draft

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5YpdD TIL NASA has a date of October 2024 for the first woman landing on the moon, as well as the first person on the moon in 52 years. The mission is called Artemis III, after Apollo's twin sister.
wojg7 TIL that on 18 December 1944, Admiral Halsey’s Third Fleet encountered a powerful Pacific Typhoon east of the Philippines. Three destroyers were sunk, 146 planes destroyed, 27 ships damaged, and 790 sailors killed; it remains the worst natural disaster in U.S. Navy history.
JY8AB TIL Ziggy Marley, one of Bob Marley's 11 children, sung the theme song for the long-running PBS cartoon Arthur.
AN5E7 TIL Bugs bunny was a parody of actor Clark Gabel in the movie It Happened One Night. His character loved snacking on carrots, which is the only reason bugs bunny did. People back then got the reference but over time the context was lost and people assumed rabbits love carrots.
4b8X TIL that due to the lax laws that pertained to divorce in Reno, Nevada in the early 1900’s, “divorce ranches” were created where women, who were denied divorces in their own home states, could stay at, establish residency, and gain a divorce in Reno within the span of six weeks.