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TIL Llanfairpwllgwyngyll-gogerychwyrndrobwlllllandysiliogogogoch is the name of a town in Wales.

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d8ROr TIL that Judas Priest is banned for life (even as spectators to other events!) at Madison Square Garden after a riot at a 1984 concert cost the arena $250,000 in damages
OoBmX NASA put 12 astronauts on the moon between 1969 and 1972. With the death Friday of Apollo 16’s John Young, only five of those astronauts are still alive, and they range in age from 82 to 87. No human being has been beyond low Earth orbit since the end of the Apollo program.
455N TIL in 1938, Helen Hulick, a burglary witness in an L.A. trial, was jailed for five days for wearing slacks in the courtroom
78RmX TIL the chirping sound pigeons make when they fly is actually caused by their wings.
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