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TIL that Neil Armstrong’s NASA application was a week late. If it weren’t for his friend, Dick Day, secretly slipping it into the pile, he would have been rejected.

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B4ek TIL that red velvet cake is just chocolate cake with red food couloring
R5lXw TIL Chico Bouchikhi of Gipsy Kings, Brother was assassinated by Mossad agents in a small Norwegian town due to a case of mistaken identity.
e0OJJ TIL while recording Trout Mask Replica, Don Van Vliet, AKA Captain Beefheart, asserted total control over the project by putting his band mates “in the barrel” and berating them continually, sometimes for days, until the musician in question collapsed into tears or in total submission to Van Vliet.
GWJE TIL If you’re an American traveling in North Korea, you call up the Swedish Embassy if in any type of danger.
85Zb TIL an airplane crashed into the Empire State Building in 1945. Among other damage, plane parts severed the cables for an elevator and the woman inside fell over 70 stories. She lived and holds the world record for the longest survived elevator fall.