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TIL that NASA's original Apollo mission patches were designed by the astronauts themselves.

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JYjBv [TIL] Sir Thomas “Tommy” Macpherson rode into Nazi territory wearing Highlander regalia and bluffed a Major General and his 23,000 troops (including part of a panzer division) into surrendering. Macpherson was later knighted and appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
a8BP9 TIL nine members of the Nepalese royal family were murdered in a mass shooting perpetrated by the Crown Prince Dipendra, before he turned the gun on himself and attempted suicide. He was left in a coma, during which he was declared King, before he died three days later.
4XYQ5 TIL that date fruits actually grow on palm trees, more specifically the Phoenix dactylifera, which are native to western Asia and north Africa.
kBrE TIL the Army secretly dumped 64 million pounds of nerve and mustard agents into the ocean, along with 400,000 chemical-filled bombs, land mines and rockets
Zl44 TIL that Trick-or-Treating originates from Britain/Ireland and was in fact poor people begging for food in exchange for prayers for the dead