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TIL that Astronaut John Glenn became the oldest person in space at 77 after “lobbying NASA for two years to fly as a human guinea pig for geriatric studies”.

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e0PQ4 TIL For years after movie The Taking Of Pelham 123 was released in 1974, New York City Transit Authority would not schedule any train to leave Pelham Bay Park station at 1:23. To this day subway dispatchers have avoided scheduling a Pelham train at 1:23 p.m. or a.m.
BoPb TIL in 1911, eleven and seven year old brothers rode on horseback from NYC to San Francisco in 62 days
epRkk TIL that the town of Longyearbyen on Svalbard only experiences sunrises and sunsets on 127 days of the year, from August 23 to October 27 and from February 15 to April 18.
Wwa8 TIL: “Government once even claimed that Hooters discriminates against men because it hires big-breasted female waiters. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission only dropped its complaint after Hooters ran a commercial showing a hairy male server wearing Hooters’ skimpy uniform.”
xVayo TIL Uruguay's world cup player Luis Suárez has bitten three opponents under high pressure situations. He doesn't know why he does it.