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TIL 'Midnight Train to Georgia' was written as a pop/country song ‘Midnight Plane to Houston,’ inspired by Farrah Fawcett

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rREWw TIL that Buzz Aldrin's first words on the moon were "Beautiful view. Magnificent desolation."
l15B TIL we could fit the entire human race in New Zealand if we lived as dense as Manhattan
JYVnQ TIL of an ~800 year old charter that has been invoked this year to close a market held at the ironically named Free Trade Inn near Loughborough, UK, as it's within a protected 6 2/3 mile radius of the town, a protection granted by King Henry iii
ADVAw TIL: Getting teenage "groopie" nookie is why most musicians get on stage, said the legendary JOHN LENNON of THE BEATLES, "we're not getting on stage to have a card game." (Also, the stage crew gets more "action" than the actual band, due to their social-gatekeeping role.)
691yl TIL John Von Neumann worked on the first atomic bomb and the first computer, came up with the formulas for quantum mechanics, described genetic self-replication before the discovery of DNA, and founded the field of game theory, among other things. He has often been called the smartest man ever.