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TIL A North Korean fighter pilot defected with his MiG-15 in 1953 and was rewarded with $100,000 from the United States

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0Q65 TIL of Thad Roberts, a former intern at NASA, who served a 6 year sentence in a federal prison after having sex with his girlfriend on a bed full of stolen moon rocks gathered from the Apollo 11 moon landing mission
oBjdY TIL Richard Hammond's nickname "Hamster" was reinforced when he ate cardboard three times in just one series of Top Gear.
b971Z TIL people during the American Civil Rights movement of the 50s and 60s were encouraged to march in their finest clothes so as to reframe the very idea of what a disrupter looked like.
bKGE TIL that in 2010, Israel’s weekly state lottery drew exactly the same 6 numbers as the draw 3 weeks earlier – an event statisticians said was a one in four trillion chance.
a1AA TIL Harriet Tubman was brain-damaged at a young age. She acquired narcolepsy, a sign of hippocampal deterioration. Her owner listed her as disabled. She claimed to receive visions and prophesies from God.