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TIL Clear Lake in California, is the Oldest Lake in North America.

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m1NZo TIL Apollo 11's Solar Wind Composition Experiment consisted of an aluminium foil sheet fixed to a pole facing the Sun. Studied by Swiss physicist Johannes Geiss, it was the only non-American experiment to be part of the mission and carried out on every moon landing
D1aGJ TIL in the 1950s and 60s Canada spent ‘thousands and thousands’ making a ‘gaydar’ to detect homosexual government employees
4XVdg TIL The guy that played Random Task in Austin Powers is serving life in prison for Torture.
KOpR6 TIL in the Sellafield nuclear power plant there is an industrial freezer packed with an expanding mountain of radioactive seagulls that were shot by snipers employed by the plant
8aPZa TIL Jimmy Fallon owns the rights to the Olive Garden slogan “When You’re Here, You’re Family.” A licensing agreement was reached when the restaurant decided to retire the slogan, which allows Fallon to use it on his show.