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TIL the Moche civilization of Peru developed a batteryless electroplating technique during the first few centuries AD to deposit a thin layer of gold over copper

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4Xavg TIL In 1977, Bill Murray was struggling to make it on Saturday Night Live so much that he delivered an on-air plea for the audience to laugh whenever he said something. In the early going on SNL, Murray, then in his mid-20s, was generally deemed a failure
WkMnL TIL: the first pilots crossing the Atlantic, crash landed on bogland in the western tip of Ireland. During their flight they came into free fall twice above the ocean. They lost the hood of the ‘cockpit’ and went trough snow and rain at 3500 m altitude, soaking and freezing them completely.
X8Dr TIL Eric Carle, the American-born illustrator and writer of The Very Hungry Caterpillar, moved to Germany as a kid in the 1930s, and was conscripted to dig trenches for the German army when he was 15 years old. Now 87 years old, he is one of the youngest surviving WWII veterans.
rREao TIL: Despite Area 51 operating as early as 1955, it was only publicly acknowledged by the CIA in 2013.
rb7M TIL Southwest Airlines (The world’s 2nd largest airline by passengers carried) has never had an in-flight fatality.