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TIL that jukeboxes in the 1940s and 50s sometimes contained a "silent" record so someone could choose to turn the music off for a bit.

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Zp9xG TIL: The Chamblee Incident. In 1989, Kenneth Lamar Noid, a mentally ill man who believed that the Domino's Pizza "Avoid the Noid" ads were personally directed towards him, antagonizing him. He took 2 Domino's employees hostage at gunpoint.
vE7x TIL the world’s shortest horror story is two lines long. “Knock” by Fredric Brown. “The last man on earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.”
kJ6x5 TIL The Apollo Mission Control Center at NASA Johnson Space Center was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 1985. NASA and National Park Service restored it to the exact moment the 1969 Moon landing took place where controllers celebrated with their cigars
1aRP4 TIL during the Berlin air-lift, one USAF pilot secretly air-dropped candy to the kids below, rocking his plane so they'd know it was him flying overhead. They called him "Uncle Wiggly Wings".
BQKD TIL that Andrew Wakefield’s study on vaccines causing Autism was debunked in 1999, and the paper he wrote on the subject was retracted in 2010!