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TIL many rockers have suffered injuries from headbanging.

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ZGnp TIL that Eugene “Gene” Cernan, the last man to walk on the Moon, fulfilled a promise he made to his daughter Tracy by writing her initials on a moon rock. Those initials will probably remain there for thousands of years.
b9dy7 TIL that the Roman numeral for "half of something" is the symbol "S", so "iPhone 4S, 6S, XS" would just mean iPhone 4.5, 6.5 and 10.5
GAe4N TIL That in 1942 the United States military increased the draft to include men ages 45-64.
dDjl7 TIL the ViewMaster was introduced in 1939. Film and paper were scarce, and production nearly stopped due to WWII, but a contract to produce airplane and ship identification and range estimation reels saved the product. The military purchased 100,000 viewers and six million reels during the war.
nWD9G TIL that in 2005, Brazilian thieves dug a 78-meter tunnel into a bank vault and stole $70 million — without firing a single shot.